Effect of drone brood homogenate on the sexual behavior of laboratory animals

This article discusses one of the most pressing problems of modern animal husbandry - the search and use of natural biologically active additives in animal feeding. Recently, a search has been conducted for new natural biostimulants that have a mild stimulating effect on reproductive status and sexual behavior. A promising product, from the point of view of normalization of sexual behavior, is drone brood homogenate. Drone brood is a unique beekeeping product containing in a balanced combination a number of the most important biologically active components: peptides, lipids, amino acids, hormones, enzymes. The purpose of this experiment was to study the effect of drone brood homogenate on the indicators of sexual activity of male rats. The object of the study were male laboratory rats - offspring of Wistar, aged 6 months, age 12 months and age 24 ± 3 months. In the experimental group, dry homogenate of drone brood in the amount of 3 g per 1 kg of feed was added to the standard general-purpose diet. The control group received a standard general-purpose diet. As a result of the data obtained, the positive effect of drone brood homogenate on sexual activity indicators - libido and potency in ejaculatory sessions of young animals was established. The introduction of drone brood homogenate into the feeding diet did not affect the time intervals and numerical indicators in adult sexually mature animals with long mating experience before the experiment. It was found that in the group of young animals there was a significant increase in the integral index of potency, as well as an increase in the integral index of libido in young animals of the experimental and control groups and in old animals of the experimental group.