Artificial insemination in poultry

The examination into artificial insemination (AI) of poultry can be retraced back until the beginning of the 20th century. The development of suitable methods to collect sperm as well as insemination, dilution and preservation of sperm the artificial insemination were used increasing extent to reproduction of poultry and became also an useful and significant method in poultry breeding. This method of mating is especially introduced in breeding of laying hens, guinea fowls and cairina moschata, but it has the most important role in reproduction of modern heavy lines of turkeys. In order to this it is possible to increase the proportion of mating in comparison with natural mating, to store semen from 6 up to 24 hours and longer without any loss of fertility, and to carry out transfers of semen. It is also possible to arrange semen depots for genetic resources by deep freezing conservation. The high part of manual work and the requirement of weekly repetition of AI to realize satisfied results of fertility by AI in a range from 90 up to 95% have a detrimental effect on a wide range using of AI in poultry. So it can be supposed that also in the future AI in poultry will be concentrated on the fields mentioned.

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