EFFECTS OF ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF Lepidium sativum, Moringa oleifera OILS AND AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF Vitex agnnus castus ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND BLOOD BIOCHEMICAL OF DOE RABBITS

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‫ـ‬ ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ـ‬ ABTRACT: This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with Lepidium sativum (LS), Moringa oleifera Oils (Mo) and aqueous extract Of Vitex agnnus castys (VACLex) on reproductive hormones, antioxidant, biochemical blood and reproductive performance in female rabbits. Sixty Baladi red does 7-month age, with average body weight of 3250±78.2 g, were used for the present study. Rabbits were randomly divided into six equal treatment groups. The control group (1 st group) was fed a basal diet without addition. The 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th , 5 th and 6 th treatments were orally supplemented 3 ml of LS, MO, VACL ex /doe/day and 3 ml of different sources of oil/doe/day combination with 3ml VACLex /doe/day, respectively for eleven consecutive day's prior insemination. Blood samples were collected through the marginal ear vein from each female rabbit prior insemination. Results are summarized as follows: 1-Concentration of E217β, P 4 , F.T, LH and FSH hormones were increased for all treatments compared to control. However, the doe rabbits consumed MO recorded highest E 2 17β and P 4 concentrations. 2-No statistical differences between groups supplied with VACLex with or without LS or MO on E 2 17β, P 4 , FT, LH and FSH. 3-Concentration of Total antioxidant capacity (TAC) enzyme for all treated groups supplemented with oils and /or aqueous extract was increased, whereas malonylaldehyde (MAD) enzyme concentration represented a significantly opposite trend. 4-All treated groups supplemented with oils and /or aqueous extract decreased serum triglyceride (TG),