Optimum Length of Time for a Boar to be in Stud
There are typically two conflicting perspectives: that of the boar stud and that of the semen customer, commercial pig producer, according to J.S. Fix and colleagues at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Pig Improvement Company. They have developed a decision-making tool to determine the optimum length of time a boar should be utilized in an AI program. Their article was published in the November 2008 NCSU Swine News.