Fertility of frozen-thawed ejaculated and epididymal sperm of Garut ram

quality reflected the interrelationship of the ant ln cycles with low quality ~d during velvet antler growth stages and it was higher a t the hard ant la of viable spermatozoa produced by the testes are present in ejaculates. This e finding that the sperm production in tropical species show fluctuations in d to the stages of the antler cycle, with increared levels of production and [ring hard antler stage. Antler casts annualy when testes regressed to their in agreement with previous report by Willard and Randell (2002) on [he age growth period in tropical species (Axis-wk). $ best semen quality is produced and obtained at hard antler development ngest stage of the antler cycle in which the stag lur active reproductive cular morphomctry and semen quality corresponds with L c hmdening of nm June to February.