1. Artificial Insemination Or…………..
A I
Artificial Insemination
Or…………..

2. Objectives: Students will:
Discuss why AI is utilized in Animal Agriculture.
Learn the Temperature of Liquid Nitrogen.
Learn how semen is stored.
Learn how estrus is detected in cattle.
Learn the gestation period for Bovine, Porcine, Equine, and gallus domesticus,

3. Cows Gone Wild!

4. Artificial Insemination
has been around since 1939.
over 65 years.
less than five percent of the nation's beef cows are bred AI,
majority of these breedings taking place in the seedstock and the club (show) calf sectors.
As a point of comparison
about 66 percent of the nation's dairy cows are bred AI, and the use of AI by commercial swine producers is currently percent.

5. Artificial Insemination is utilized to
Improve local herds.
Utilize high quality blood lines.

6. Semen Canisters

7. 320 Degrees Below “O”

8. Semen Straws

10. Straw

12. Semen is thawed at 95 degrees.

30. Gestation Period For Cattle
9 Months

31. Swine Gestation Period
3 months
3 weeks
3 days

32. Horses
11 months

33. Chickens
21 days

34. The End