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.
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
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
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
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.
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture