Artificial insemination in Payoya goats: factors affecting fertility
Francisco Arrebola A , Olga González B , Rafael Torres B and José-Alfonso Abecia C D
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A IFAPA Hinojosa del Duque, Córdoba, Spain.
B Asociación Nacional Criadores Cabra Payoya, Algodonales, Cádiz, Spain.
C Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
D Corresponding author. Email: alf@unizar.es
Animal Production Science 54(3) 356-362 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN13138
Submitted: 10 April 2013 Accepted: 17 June 2013 Published: 17 July 2013
Abstract
The present study was conducted to determine the effect of different factors on pregnancy rate after artificial insemination (AI) with refrigerated and frozen semen in Payoya goats reared under commercial farm conditions. A total of 820 goats, belonging to 10 farms, was used. The total number of studied inseminations was 1384 over a 4-year period. Factors considered in the study were year, farm, month of AI, age of the goat at AI, dose of progestagen, eCG dose, buck, type of semen (refrigerated or frozen), technician, number of goats to be inseminated (group size), incidences at AI (problems, no problems, trans-cervical insemination), distance from semen collection to farm, number of previous kidding, kidding–AI interval, and milk production. The variable studied was fertility, expressed as successful kidding. Mean fertility was 59%. Six (farm, age, group size, transcervical AI, number of kidding and milk production) of the 15 factors studied presented a significant (P < 0.05) effect on fertility after AI. Our results demonstrated that it is difficult to control all the critical aspects of AI programs at the farm level. These factors should be controlled and the variations that could compromise the chance of being pregnant must be known by technicians. The good fertility results obtained during the non-breeding season emphasise the implementation of this technique so as to improve the competitiveness of the dairy Payoya breed flocks.
Additional keywords: age, farm, milk production, semen.
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