Abstract
Eight healthy west African dwarf rams aged between 1.5 and 2.5 years weighing between 13 and 18 kg were assigned randomly into groups for right and left testicular orchidectomy. The Hemi-orchiidectomy was performed after three weeks of quarantine and testicular characteristics of excised testes examined. Thereafter, for a period of seven weeks, spermiograms were studied and recorded after which intact testes were removed and responsiveness to hemiorchidectomy studied. Basal spermiogram, gotten from all the animals before hemiorchidectomy served as control while comparison were made between testes removed during hemiorchidectomy and the intact testis removed thereafter. Compensatory hypertrophy was observed in all the animals after the procedure in the two groups. However this compensation was not of significant variation comparing animals assigned to left testicular orchidectomy with those for right testicular orchidectomy, (p
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