Effect of laying hen's diet on body weight,serum biochemical indexes,testicular morphology and semen quality of Wannan yellow chicken roosters
LI Jun-ying
GUAN He-long
QI Ren-rong
LIU Wei
MA Rui-yu
LI Yan
WAN Yi
ZHAN Kai
Abstract：The study was to investigate the effect of laying hen's diet on the body weight,serum biochemical indexes,testicular morphology and semen quality of Wannan yellow chicken roosters.Sixty 30-week-old Wannan yellow chicken roosters were randomly divided into two groups(laying hen's diet group and rooster's diet group),roosters were fed a laying hen's diet and a rooster's diet,respectively.The experiment lasted eight weeks.The results showed that the serum calcium content of the roosters fed the laying hen's diet was higher than those fed the rooster's diet in the middle stage of the experiment(P＜0.05),and the glucose content was lower than that in the rooster's diet group(P＜0.05).At the end of the experiment,the content of serum calcium in the laying hen's diet group was higher than that in the rooster's diet group(P＜0.05),and the androgen level was lower than that in the rooster's diet group(P＜0.05).The number of leydig cells per unit area,semen volume,semen color and sperm concentration of the rooster's diet group was higher than those of the hen's diet group.The study indicates that the laying hen's diet can increase the serum calcium content and decrease the number of testicular interstitial cells,which can lead to the decrease of serum androgen level and sperm density.
Keywords：Wannan yellow chicken roostersbody weightserum biochemical indexestestis morphological structuresemen quality
Publication Date：2023-12-15
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 44-48 )