Conexión Agropecuaria JDC (Nov 2012)
Correlation between diameter and testicular sperm quality in sheep’s creole, municipality of Soracá Boyacá
Abstract
This study presents the correlation between testicular diameter (TD) and sperm quality in a group of native sheep in the town of Soracá Boyacá, for possible selection values , considering the importance of reproduction in the sheep-culture and the search efficiency in the selection and management of players. The evaluation procedure was carried out by testing macroscopic and microscopic semen quality and testicular size measurement over a specific measuring tape for the case of comparing the diameters testicular ultrasonography was used as complementary test. The correlation of the results with respect to DT semen parameters (macroscopic and microscopic) as volume (V), sperm concentration (SC), mass motility (MM) and individual motility (MI) was significant, as evidenced by the coefficient correlation of 0.81 between DT and CE. The correlation coefficients between DT and V, DT and MI were low with 0.29 and 0.27 respectively, recorded the lowest correlation was present between DT and MM with 0.09. This leads to the conclusion that the greater the testicular diameter (TD) better sperm quality, and their values can serve as indicators as to the fertility of native sheep breeding males in seminal samples collected by electro-ejaculator.
