Abstract

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of a range of procedures used to evaluate the fertility of ram semen. This paper reports on the development of a heterologous IVF test, using bovine oocytes for the evaluation of frozen ram semen. An initial comparison of frozen bull (B) and ram (R) sperm with bovine oocytes using either TALP or SOF media showed a significant (P<0.001) species by media interaction on the percentage of fertilised oocytes (B-TALP 88.2

JF, Smith, and GR Murray

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 56, , 304-306, 1996
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