USE OF DIFFERENT DILUENTS WITH A LOW NUMBER OF SPERMATOZOA BY INSEMINATION DOSE IN RABBIT. Volume A, pages 173-177 USE OF DIFFERENT DILUENTS WITH A LOW NUMBER OF SPERMATOZOA BY INSEMINATION DOSE IN RABBIT. LAVARA

The aim of this study was to show the efficacy of artificial insemination employing three different diluents (A, B and C). These diluents were : (A) Galap (IMV, France), (B) DLBR (Tris-citric-glucose), (C) MA24 (Laboratorios Ovejero, León, Spain). The inseminations were done in a commercial farm. A total of 8 million of spermatozoa per dose were inseminated. A total of 2125 artificial insemination were done (601 with A, 756 with B, and 768 with C). No differences were found in fertility (66%) and litter size at birth (10.21 0.10). These results showed that low concentration of spermatozoa can be used with different extenders to obtain normal fertility rate and prolificacy in a commercial farm.