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Everybody Loves Agriculture

Discover the latest techniques for analyzing ram semen, ensuring optimal fertility management in sheep breeding programs. Learn about semen viability, storing methods, and artificial insemination procedures to enhance productivity.

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Everybody Loves Agriculture

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  1. Everybody Loves Agriculture

  2. “Everybody is affected by agriculture: the food we eat, the clothes we wear are agricultural products. About 60% of the Australian landmass is agricultural land. Agriculture and agricultural education must be promoted as much more than farming…” Ben Ovenden University Medal Recipient & Rice Farmer 2006

  3. Philosophy “Nothing Great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion” Hegel

  4. Sheep & Science Taree Campus of TAFE Peter Ruprecht & Kim Billingham aided and abetted by John Harper et al.

  5. CSI John Harper, Peter Chenoweth, Nim Weerakoon, Brian Alston Graham Curry & Students Science Careers Kim & Peter Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga

  6. Description of project • Initial concept • Contact with schools • Planning phase • Development of resources

  7. It is crucial to check semen viability and motility after thawing from liquid nitrogen storage

  8. Viewing sperm down the microscope

  9. Freezing ram semen as pellets on a dry-ice block (solid carbon dioxide) for long-term storage in liquid nitrogen

  10. Liquid nitrogen storage containers

  11. Artificial insemination of ewes using Intrauterine Laparoscopic AI

  12. Embryo Transfer

  13. Obtaining embryos from a ewe for embryo transfer For details see Genstock Promo video

  14. Sheep embryos For details see Genstock Promo video

  15. CSI John Harper, Peter Chenoweth, Nim Weerakoon, Brian Alston Graham Curry & Students Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga

  16. Eosin/nigrosin stain to detect living and dead Ram sperm In normal light microscopy Dead sperm stain purple (arrows), living sperm are greyish blue. White dots are droplets associated with sperm development that are discarded as they move through the male system. Dark purple spots are granules of the stain.

  17. Here we are looking at the same field of sperm as in the previous slide and using a fluorescence microscope. The eosin-nigrosin stain that shows up purple in the sperm heads of dead sperm under white light (Bright field microscopy) is easier to see under UV light as the ‘dead heads’ fluoresce red or golden in the sperm head under ultraviolet light. In living sperm there is not much fluorescence in the sperm head. Note that half of the sperm tail, called the midpiece, fluoresces golden in living and dead sperm Note too the white arrows show the same dead sperm as seen the previous slide

  18. Below are examples of living and dead sperm as seen using a fluorescence microscope. The red and golden fluorescence indicating dead sperm is easier to detect than the purple stain under bright field.

  19. 102 dead sperm

  20. 172 live sperm

  21. So if you count 102 dead sperm and 172 live sperm the total sperm in the Field of view is 102 + 172 = 274. The percentage living (viable) in this case are : 172/274 x100 =62.7 i.e. close to 63%

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