Artifical Insemenation!

One of my favorite topics to talk about. Yeah for most teenagers its kind of awkward to talk about the reproducitve tract of livestock but since I have been around it I am pretty open. Anyhow, what the heck is artifical insemenation? Artifical Insemenation is placing of the semen into the reproductive tract (near the cervix) of a female besides natural breeding.

Some humans who cannot or are having trouble having children AI (think of John and Kate plus 8, or the 20 kids and counting show). Most of what happens could poetenially be very dangerous to humans where they have multipule children where as for livestock its not quite the same amount.

Pros :

Technicain Artifical Insemenated my Reserve Grand Champion Sheep with semen from the Grand Champion Market Lamb at the Indiana State Fair in 2009. Yeah, it was 2 year old semen but from the outcome of other lambs I am extremely excited to announce that she will be having a set of twins!!

 

Cons:

Artificial insemination can be limiting if the proper resources are not available, so there are some disadvantages. A.I. requires specialized knowledge, trained individuals, and the time required to properly execute an effective A.I. program is considerably more than with natural service. The extra help and time can often mean added expense.

 

-The Dairy Industry uses AI VERY MUCH!!

-The USDA reported nearly half of all dairy females in the U.S. were bred using A.I. as early as 1970.

- According to the University of Mississippi, only about one in six beef cattle breeders use artificial insemination in their current breeding program today. However breeders still use AI very much in their operation to obtain a growing demand for Enconmic Traits like weaning weight, market weight.