NO A.I. YET WITH PIGS
Use of artificial breeding in the pig industry is not just round the corner yet. Mr I. H. Owtram, extension officer, pig husbandry. Department of Agriculture, Wellington. told farmer* at a farm school on the West Coast recently that it had been used on a North Island property with about 200 sows where there was an almost immediate transfer of semen from boar to sows, but the problem Involved in artificial insemination with pigs was the preservation of semen in transport The position of artificial breeding in the pig industry was at about the same stage as it was in the dairy industry after the war. Mr Owtram • agreed that it would be very desirable for greater uniformity of carcase quality and would be particularly useful for the, man with a small number of sows who had to keep a boar which had little to'do.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 9
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