期刊
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE
卷 224, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2020.106649
关键词
Sexed semen; Estrous cycle; Timed artificial insemination
资金
- Sexing Technologies (Navasota, TX)
The experiment evaluated delaying artificial insemination (AI) by 6 hours and its impact on pregnancy rates, with no significant difference seen. However, a higher proportion of heifers exhibited estrus before the first timepoint when AI was delayed.
An experiment was designed to evaluate later timepoints for Split-Time AI (STAI), with the hypothesis that delaying AI may improve estrous response and pregnancy per AI when using sex-sorted semen. Timing of estrus was synchronized among 794 heifers using the 14-d CIDR (R)-PG protocol (1.38 g progesterone intravaginal insert from Day 0-14, followed by 25 mg dinoprost tromethamine on Day 30) with STAI performed based on estrous status. Heifers were blocked based on breed, source, sire, reproductive tract score (RTS), and BW and assigned within block to one of two approaches. In Approach 66, heifers that were estrual by 66 h after PG administration were inseminated at 66 h, and remaining heifers were inseminated 24 h later (90 h). In Approach 72, heifers that were estrual by 72 h were inseminated at 72 h, and remaining heifers were inseminated 24 h later (96 h). With both approaches, heifers that were non-estrual by the final timepoint were administered 100 mu g gonadorelin acetate (GnRH). Within approach, heifers were pre-assigned to receive SexedULTRA 4M (TM) sex-sorted or conventional semen. The proportion of heifers estrual by the first timepoint was greater (P < 0.0001) with Approach 72 (76 %; 302/395) compared to Approach 66 (61 %; 242/399). The proportion of heifers pregnant as a result of AI differed (P = 0.0005) by semen type (59 % [240/404] for conventional compared with 48 % [187/390] for sex-sorted) but was not affected by approach or approach x semen type. In summary, pregnancy per AI of heifers receiving sex-sorted or conventional semen following the 14-d CIDR (R)-PG protocol did not differ when STAI was delayed 6 h. The proportion of estrual heifers prior to the first timepoint, however, was greater with later STAI.
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