Effect of foot and mouth disease vaccination on seminal traits in pure Holstein Friesian bulls

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out to study the effect of foot and mouth disease vaccination on seminal traits of 30 Holstein Friesian (HF) bulls, 3-5 years old, maintained at BAIF Central Research Station, Uruli Kanchan, Pune, India. The study period was from August to September 2013 and semen quality traits were evaluated on each bull maintained under identical feeding and management regimes. A total of 180 semen ejaculates were collected with one ejaculate from each bull at 3 days interval in a week at 15 days before, 15 and 30 days after FMD vaccination. Raksha Ovac vaccine of Indian Immunologicals Ltd. was used for vaccination purpose. Seminal traits like fresh and post thaw sperm motility, sperm concentration, semen volume, live and dead count, plasma membrane integrity were evaluated for all the ejaculates. Data on seminal traits were analysed by using one way ANOVA. Results revealed that vaccination had significant (P<0.05) effect on post thaw motility and highly significant (P<0.01) deleterious effect on HOS test, head and mid piece abnormalities; however no effect was noted on ejaculate volume, sperm concentration, initial motility, viability and tail abnormalities. The observations showed that vaccination alters the seminal traits of pure HF bulls.

Effect of Foot and Mouth Diseases Vaccination on Basic Semen Quality Parameter in Bali Cattle

“…In the present study indicated no significant difference results for individual motility on postvaccination (M = 80.90, SD = 8.06) over prevaccination (M = 78.51, SD = 10.86), t(74) = -1.72, p = 0.95 and not a significant difference for sperm concentration on post-vaccination (M = 1435.00, SD = 437.11) over pre-vaccination (M = 1266.75, SD = 422.60), t(74) = -4.35, p = 1.00 in Bali cattle bull. These results were in line with those reported by Gupta et al (2017). The analysis results from the parameters of individual motility (%), abnormalities (%), concentration, and volume of 25 Bali cattle semen-donor bulls before and after FMD vaccination are present in Table 1.…”

“…These results are contrary to those previously reported by Perumal et al (2013) in Mithun bull semen following FMD vaccination. Furthermore, Sirohi et al (2016) and Gupta et al (2017) also reported an increase in abnormalities in the head, midpiece, and tail of Frieswal and Friesian Holstein bull's spermatozoa due to FMD vaccination.…”

“…Most of the studies reported a decrease in semen quality that varied from 10 days to 10 weeks (Perumal et al, 2013;Kong et al, 2013). However, several studies also reported that there was no effect of FMD vaccination on the semen quality of bulls (Gupta et al, 2017). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the possible effect of vaccination that could lead to a decrease in the quality of ejaculate semen for indigenous Indonesian Bali cattle semen-donor bulls.…”

Sperm DNA Integrity and Male Fertility in Farm Animals: A Review

“…Gosálvez et al (61) also recorded a significant increase in sperm DNA damage after vaccination of rams, but observed that the negative impact was reversible. In another study, Gupta et al (62) reported a deleterious effect of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine on plasma membrane integrity and morphology of bull sperm.…”

Effect of vitamin E supplementation on semen and blood profile of vaccinated crossbred bulls

“…However, more emphasis is still required to be laid on vaccination of exotic and crossbred bulls, as they are more prone to Foot and Mouth diseases (FMD), Hemorrhagic Septicemia (HS), Black Quarter (BQ) and other diseases (Bhakat et al 2011a). Available report on the effect of vaccination on semen quality are conflicting in nature; while some studies reported no significant effect of vaccination on semen quality (Mangurkar et al 2000), others found increased incidence of sperm abnormalities (Pankaj et al 2007). Semen quality affected by vaccination (Bhakat et al 2008(Bhakat et al , 2010(Bhakat et al , 2011a(Bhakat et al , 2015 as a consequence of stress caused by a rise in the body as well as testicular temperature during the post-vaccination period.…”