Use of artificial insemination (AI) for breeding pigs has been instrumental for facilitating
global improvements in fertility, genetics, labor, and herd health. The establishment of AI …

We review critical factors associated with reproductive performance of female breeding pigs,
their lifetime performance and herd productivity in commercial herds. The factors include …

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Artificial insemination (AI) is now used for breeding more than 90% of the sows in most of the
world's primary pork producing countries. Despite the advancement of methods to …

Many advances in genetic selection, nutrition, housing and disease control have been
incorporated into modern pork production since the 1950s resulting in highly prolific females …

Artificial insemination with frozen‐thawed semen in pigs is not a routine technique; its use is
restricted to specific cases, such as preservation of valuable genetic material (germplasm …

The objective was to determine the effects of antioxidant addition to extender on viability,
acrosome integrity and penetrability in vitro of boar spermatozoa preserved at 10° C …

A recent telephone survey of 735 Dutch farmers with group housing of sows in early
pregnancy suggested a wide variation in reproductive success, irrespective of husbandry …

Abstract Development of a pen-side test to objectively determine the ideal time for artificial
insemination (AI) in the sow would save producers time and money. Current processes rely …

Data from two experiments were used to study the relationship between weaning-to-estrus
interval (WEI, varying from 3 to 6 d) and the duration of estrus, the interval from onset of …