Author Topic: Can someone please clarify AI for me? (Read 3255 times)

Browntea · « **on:** April 24, 2011, 10:37:50 pm »

Please can someone clarify AI

I think I read that a AI,ed guilts litter cannot be registered pedigree....I'm just not sure, advice welcomed please

Tudful Tamworths · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2011, 10:44:34 pm »

Bit unclear what you mean.
I'm assuming you're talking about a registered pedigree gilt which is put into pig via AI, which then has a litter.
If the semen has come from a registered pedigree boar (e.g. from Deerpark), then the litter can be registered as pedigree. No difference to having her directly served by a boar. When you come to register on the BPA website, it will ask you whether it is natural service or AI.
Hope this helps.
Liz

Browntea · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2011, 09:29:37 am »

Thanks Liz perfect!

robert waddell · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2011, 09:31:52 am »

if you use pooled semen you cant register

Browntea · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2011, 01:35:01 pm »

OH...whats pooled seamen?

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2011, 07:09:07 pm »

Quote from: Browntea on April 25, 2011, 01:35:01 pm

OH...whats pooled seamen?

aaaarggghhhhhhh and I SO love puns....

... SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!!

poppajohn · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2011, 07:40:42 pm »

The most effective contraceptive is an Exocet Missile.

It kills all semen at 40 miles...........

Tudful Tamworths · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2011, 05:56:37 pm »

Browntea, as you're looking to breed pedigree pigs, don't worry about the reference to pooled semen. Pooling semen is mixing semen from two or three boars - common in commercial breeding. However, if you are buying from Deerpark, the only place that caters for rare breeds, they don't do that. Good luck and drop me a message if you want a chat.

robert waddell · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2011, 07:06:48 pm »

Liz is not correct in what she says.
Yes, Deerpark supplies rare breed semen. They also supply Hampshire semen, which is pooled (they are tied to a contract with the supplier of their boar). I enquired into this and spoke directly to Robert Overend and the BPA resulting in spending several days researching the BPA records and telephoning Hampshire breeders, eventually locating a Hampshire boar to bring to Scotland without any restrictions on selling off spring and without the boar and gilts being related.
This is why I posted about the pooled semen.

Tudful Tamworths · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:48:47 pm »

Congratulations on sharing the fruits of your research, Lillian. Hope all this help you, Browntea. Good luck with the AI - whatever breed you choose to inseminate!

Browntea · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2011, 10:34:14 pm »

Well thanks for clearing the pooled semen thing up anyway,I will be talking to deerpark in the next few days as the girls won't be long before their in again, btw it's berkshires we have and deerpark can help