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
• early
• regular
• late
• 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
• Type
• Hygiene
• Air quality
• Health
• Vaccination program
• Blood tests/titers
• Discharges