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AI Program Evaluation Checklist
Wayne Singleton
Purdue University
Semen
- Boar Management Program
- Housing
- Temperature control
- Nutrition
- Age
- Frequency of collection
- Health program
- Hygiene
- Proper equipment and lab area
- Temperature control
- At collection
- Processing
- Storage
- Techniques for assessment of semen quality of individual sires and ejaculates
- Water source and quality
- Extender (storage, expiration date, pH)
- Accuracy of equipment
- Scales
- Sperm counting
- Thermometers/thermostats
- Boar-semen production records
Technician - Insemination
- Age of semen (length of storage)
- Hygiene
- Proper female stimulation
- Patience/time of insemination process
- Evidence of bloody catheters
- Evidence of discharges
- Return to estrus report
- Heat detection program
- Head-to-head with boar
- Knowledge of worker
- Timing and number of inseminations
Female Fertility
- Reproductive performance records/whole herd and by parity
- Farrowing rate
- Litter size
- Wean-to-estrus interval
- Inseminations/service
- Returns
- Regular
- Irregular
- Early
- Late
- Nutrition - gilt development, breeding, gestation and lactation
- Body condition
- Feed intake
- Ration formulation
- Housing
- Health
- Vaccination program
- Blood tests/titers
- Discharges
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