Magapor and Guyue sign historic agreement to build the largest boar stud worldwide
The two companies will build a 1,000-head boar stud in China which will be the largest boar stud in the world.
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Collaboration the Key to New Pork Pact
Top breeder organizations Hendrix Genetics (Hypor) and German-based BHZP sign agreement, improving market concentration and collaboration.
Tips to stimulate gilts and sows coming into heat
In a series of articles, swine reproduction and insemination specialist, Javier Gil Pascual, addresses the key aspects of oestrus stimulation and detection, and insemination.
Heat detection
Only the best workers are able to detect sows in heat without a boar…
Post-thaw boar sperm motility is affected by prolonged storage of sperm in liquid nitrogen
The fact that the major phenotypic characteristic of boar spermatozoa, motility, is constrained by time of cryostorage should be considered when building cryobanks of pig semen.
Liquid nitrogen affects post-thaw boar sperm motilitySperm DNA integrity in Landrace and Duroc boar semen and its relationship to litter size
Sperm DNA integrity in semen with good motility and morphology may be an additional prediction parameter for fertility in pigs.
Sperm DNA integrity in Landrace and Duroc boar semen and its relationsAbsence of seminal plasma from sperm-rich fraction decreases boar sperm quality characteristics
The seminal plasma from the sperm-rich fraction is important for the maintenance of adequate structural and functional characteristics of extended liquid boar semen.
Absence of seminal plasma from sperm-rich fraction boar spermCases of reproductive failure around mating: as real as life itself
Management of dead semen, data analysis, vaccinations,... These are some examples that we will deal with in the following 6 case studies.