Studies on Turkey's (Meleagris gallopavo) Semen Collection Method as an Animal Model for Collections of Merak Jawa's (Pavo muticus)Semen in Vivo

• Main Authors: Budiyanto, Agung, Gustari, Sri, Prihatno, Surya Agus, Sirat, MMP
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Bogor Agriculture University 2014
• Subjects: Veterinary Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/274577/1/Proceeding%20of%20the%203%20Joint%20International%20Meeting%20Bogor%20INDONESIA.pdf; https://repository.ugm.ac.id/274577/
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Indonesia has a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. Technology which allows increasing the population of Merak Jawa is the artificial Insemination (AI), but it is not known the exact method to semen collection of this species. It is necessary to research on semen collection techniques appropriate to the species. Artificial Insemination is one of the methods to promoting green peacock population and save Indonesian genetic resources. The level of fertility in the male ostrich exerts considerable influence on the efficiency of the fertilization procedure, and thus also on reproductive performance. How to collect the semen is the important things to support the breeding system in this species. Turkey is the closest animal species of animal models for Al in Java peacock. In this study we have used turkey as an animal model in which both semen collection method that can be used in the Merak Jawa that do not have the appropriate and complete method in the breeding methods of Al. Two studies had done, that the effect of collection time and existing or current teaser and without teaser for massage method for semen collection. Two males 2 years old of Turkey were used in this research studies with 5 replications. Collections have done in the morning, noon and evening time and with and without teaser. The results showed that the collection time in the morning had best sperm motility rate compared with the afternoon and evening (average 80% +5.68, 20% +6.05 and 40% +4.98 respectively). Sperm motility on with and without teaser methods seen that with teaser time of collection has faster than without the teaser, furthermore sperm motility by using a teaser of the without (80% = 5.12 and 35% + 7.21 respectively). It could be concluded that turkey spermatozoa has higher motility rate collection in the morning and used the massage + teaser cement collection method. We will use this method for the Merak Jawa bird in the future breeding method.