Course Description
Management of reproduction in farm animals for efficient livestock production. Application of reproductive management, principles associated with artificial insemination, embryo transfer, pregnancy detection, semen collection, and reproductive record management.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be required to serve as coordinators for laboratory projects in embryo transfer, swine artificial insemination and estrous detection.
Athena Title
APPL ANIM REPROD
Prerequisite
ADSC 3400-3400L
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To study and discuss reproductive physiology of beef and dairy cattle, swine, and sheep and how it relates to applied management procedures. Learn through critical thinking by engaging in complex thought, analysis, and reasoning to solve management problems and make logical management decisions.
Topical Outline
- Reproductive Anatomy, Hormones & Estrous Cycle - Postpartum Breeding, Heat Detection and Time of Breeding - Collect Bull and Palpate - Late Pregnancy, Calving, Palpation - Semen Handling, Placement, Fertility & AI Techniques - Palpation, Ultrasound and Ovarian Activity - Sheep, Lambing & Boar Collection, Evaluation & AI - AI Beef Cows and Palpate - AI and Palpation - AI & Pregnancy, Synchronization, Milk Progesterone - AI and Palpation - Heat Watch, Semen Collection & Processing, Embryo Transfer - Records & PCDart
Syllabus
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