Effect of feeding a docosahexaenoic acid-enriched nutriceutical on the quality of fresh and frozen-thawed semen in Holstein bulls |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Animal Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science & Engineering, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran;3. Department of Veterinary Science, Islamic Azad University of Shahrekord, Shahrekord, Iran;1. Department of Animals and Poultry Science, College of Aburaihan, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;2. Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;3. Department of Animal Science, University of California, 2251 Meyer Hall, Davis, CA 95616, USA;2. Bayer CropScience, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;1. SaBio IREC (UCLM-CSIC-JCCM), Campus Universitario, Albacete, Spain;2. Regional Center of Animal Selection and Reproduction (CERSYRA) JCCM, Valdepeñas, Spain;3. Reproductive Ecology and Biology Group, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain;1. Department of Animal Science, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran;3. Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran;4. Department of Embryology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran;5. Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of feeding a DHA-enriched nutriceutical on the in vitro quality and sperm motility parameters of fresh and frozen-thawed bull semen assessed by CASA. Samples were obtained from nineteen Holstein bulls used for semen collection at Semen Production Center, Karaj, Iran. Control group (n = 10) were fed a standard concentrate feed while treatment group bulls (n = 9) had this standard feed top dressed with 100 g of a commercially available DHA-enriched nutriceutical. Semen quality was assessed on ejaculates collected at the baseline and after 5, 9, and 12 weeks of supplementation. Classical semen evaluation, assessment of sperm motility (subjective and computer-assisted), viability (eosin-nigrosin), and hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) were conducted. Semen volume, sperm concentration, and consequently total sperm output were not affected by dietary treatment (P > 0.05). Feeding the nutriceutical was indeed found to affect sperm motility parameters assessed by CASA after 9 weeks of trial. The treatment has improved total motility (P < 0.01), progressive motility (P < 0.05), average path velocity (P < 0.05), HOST-positive (P < 0.01), and proportion of rapid spermatozoa (P < 0.01) in the fresh semen of bulls. Moreover, the proportion of viable spermatozoa increased (P < 0.05) in the ejaculates collected from nutriceutical-fed bulls compared to the control after 12 weeks of feeding trial. The post-thawed HOST and sperm motility data obtained by CASA did not differ between two groups (P > 0.05). On the other hand, dietary supplementation did not affect body weight, BCS and scrotal circumference. Consequently, it can be concluded that dietary DHA supplementation or its precursors, improve in vitro quality and motility parameters of fresh semen assessed by CASA in Holstein bulls. However, this effect was not pronounced in frozen-thawed semen. |
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