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REPRODUCTION
Criteria: Select Breeding Stock in Meat Goats
Biology of Reproduction in Goats
Increasing Successful Reproduction in Goats
Controlled Breeding Season in Goats
WHICH IS THE BEST WAY AND WHY?
NATURAL METHODS
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
From the article produced by Alabama A & M University: Link Below
Advantages of AI
- AI is the best way to spread elite genetic material throughout a population. Semen can be collected from top bucks, frozen, and then transported throughout the world where it can be utilized by large populations to facilitate progeny testing. Progeny testing involves breeding offspring to determine their genetic merit.
- AI helps producers to utilize their prize bucks that may be physically injured and unable to mate.
- AI allows producers to increase their herds without purchasing and maintaining bucks or losing them to predators, injury, or illness.
- AI is effective in controlling diseases.
- AI is an important breed preservation process.
Disadvantages of AI
- The technician must be well trained in the anatomy, function, and regulation of the doe reproductive tract to manipulate the reproductive function and estrus synchronization.
- AI requires special equipment and facilities.
- It requires a great deal of time to check heat that is crucial for a successful process. On average, a doe's heat phase lasts for 12 to 48 hours.
- AI increases capacity to disseminate undesirable genes in a population.
FLUSHING
Flushing Does for Breeding Season
SURGICAL
NON SURGICAL
REPRODUCTIVE DISEASES
From the article produced by Alabama A & M University: Link Below
The most common microorganisms that cause abortions in goats are:
- Chlamydiosis (Chlamydia psittaci)
- Query or Queensland (Q) fever (Coxiella burnetii)
- Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
- Leptospirosis (Leptospira spp)
- Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
- Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)
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