Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 3
Written by Igor MOISEI, Mykola POVOD, Anna LYKHACH, Oleksandr MYKHALKO, Tetyana VERBELCHUK, Valeriy BORSHCHENKO, Vira KOBERNIUK, Kostyantyn KALITAEV, Kateryna YURIEVA, Oleksandr BAZURIN, Yana BORSUK

The paper aimed to assess the economic efficiency in sows reproduction using artificial insemination in industrial production conditions. For this purpose, the post-cervical method was used to inseminate the sows, and this proved to be the most efficient method compared to other insemination methods. The results showed a tendency to increase the farrowing rate by 0.68% in sows in which semen was introduced by the post-cervical method. There was also a tendency to increase the total number of piglets born in sows using the intravaginal insemination method. At the same time, no difference in multiparity was found between sows inseminated with different methods. It was found that due to the improvement of artificial insemination techniques and the introduction of the post-cervical method, the number of doses of semen required to inseminate a sow per year decreased by -13.0%, the volume of a dose of semen decreased by 44.4% and the total amount of semen decreased by 51.7%. The total amount of semen used to inseminate a sow per year decreased by 7, which proportionally reduced the cost of inseminating the entire breeding herd, the amount and cost of semen diluent, main catheters and semen disinfectant used decreased by 13.0% and the number of boars decreased by 44.0.

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