Program Details

This program is designed to provide a comprehensive and hands-on learning experience for producers interested in exploring the use of artificial insemination in their herds. This short course is a combination of lectures covering a wide variety of topics as well as 12 hours of chute-side work practicing the method of artificial insemination under the guidance of experienced professionals.

Participants will also receive a bound copy of the learning materials to be able to reference long after the course has ended.

*We will be providing the welcome dinner, all lunches, and morning snacks. If you have any food allergies or restrictions, please email Dr. Ashleigh Spurlock (amuthspurlock@agcenter.lsu.edu) so that accommodations can be made.

Thursday, March 11th (Animal and Food Sciences Laboratories/AFSL)

6:00 – 7:00 Dinner and pre-test

7:00 – 7:30 AI equipment and semen handling

7:30 – 8:00 Reproductive anatomy and method of AI

8:00 – 8:30 Practice with tracts


Friday, March 12th

7:30 – 11:30 AI and semen handling practice at the farm

11:30 – 1:00 Break, clean-up

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 Reproductive herd health

3:00 – 3:45 Selection of breeding animals

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:30 Recordkeeping

4:30 – 5:30 Nutritional management of breeding females

5:30 - Q&A and wrap-up


Saturday, March 13th

7:30 – 11:30 AI and semen handling practice at the farm

11:30 – 1:00 Break, clean-up

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 2:45 Economics of AI and estrous syncronization

2:45 – 3:45 Estrous Cycle and Estrous synchronzation

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 4:30 Heat detection and heat detection aids

4:30 – 5:00 Estrous synchronization planning software

5:00 - 5:30 Q&A and wrap-up


Sunday, March 14th

7:30 – 11:30 AI and semen handling practice at the farm

11:30 – 12:30 short course evaluation and post-test

The poultry unit will be used for the lecture portion of the short course. Chute-side live practice will be conducted at the beef unit.

Driving on US-30/Nicholson Drive away from campus, make a right onto Ben Hur Rd. The Poultry Unit will be on the left-hand side, the beef unit on the right-hand side. Be on the lookout for AI school signage.

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