UN SDG
Livestock Studies 1960, Vol 1, Num, 7     (Pages: 057-074)
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Artificielle insemination on the poultry

Ömer GEBELEK ,Faik AKYIL ,Ali ÖZDİL

- Following the discovery in 1935 bay Burrows and Quinn and by Munro of methods of coellecting semen from male fowl and of inseminating hens and due to various recent modifications of those methodes the technique of artificial insemination of fowl is at present sufficiently developed for introduction in practical breeding.

The veterinarians zootechnicians and competent breeders may easily carry it out nevertheles its application requires a precise knowledge of the anatomy and physiologie of the reproductive system of birds.

Examination of semen may be done by the staff of existing inseminating stations since the methods with some unimportant exceptions are not seriously different from these used for the semen of Mammals.

Inseminating of femals with fresh and undiluted semen gives superior or at least equal results compared with those obtained by natural mating.

The use of simple diluents (salt buffer solutions amion acids or egg yolk) seems to be adequate for storage of the diluted semen during 4 to 6 hours.

The application of the technique of artificial insemination is more suitable for the breeders producing hatchig eggs where hens are confined in laying batteries for the highly selected strains and for all establishements where a hingh fertility of eggs is of the first important.

Artificial inseminations is the only practical method for the production of hiybrids. Keywords :