REPROEQUI Operational Group: Innovation project to improve the reproduction system of equine livestock for meat production in Asturias
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019
- Assigned Budget 0,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Asturias, Principado de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
The Innovation Project will allow the development of innovation in the field of the beef equine livestock subsector, and includes the combination and configuration of knowledge and techniques of animal reproduction of a scientific and technological nature with the aim of making available to farm owners a new reproduction service based on artificial insemination (AI) with selected stallions, in a representative environment, where 90 mares will be inseminated and evaluated with semen doses from the aforementioned stallions.
The aim of the project is, therefore, to provide technical improvements in animal reproduction through a new artificial insemination service for beef horses, which is not substantially established, unlike the reproduction service of the Military Parade (Horse Breeding Service of the Ministry of Defense), which is only used by 26% of ACGEMA members (according to a survey conducted in 2015).
- Achieve genetic progress that contributes to improving beef horse production.
- Achieve a production that is differentiated from other equine farms suitable for meat production.
- To have worthy stallions evaluated morphologically and health-wise that: improve meat aptitudes, avoid malformations, defects or diseases.
- Produce foals with excellent conformation and good growth.
- To achieve a more homogeneous livestock herd and therefore more homogeneous carcasses for sale.
- Achieve a cumulative success rate in artificial insemination greater than 75%.
- Development of a methodology for obtaining and cryopreservation of seminal doses.
- Pre-selection of 9 foals, based on the morphological criteria of the Asturian Mountain Horse prototype, from the beef equine herd as candidates for future breeding stallions.
- Initial health, morphological, and sperm quality assessment of the nine preselected stallions and determination of their suitability as breeding stallions for inclusion in the 2020 artificial insemination campaign.
- Final selection of three stallions, based on the initial selection, that will enter the breeding and artificial insemination program in 2020.
- Monitoring of sperm quality parameters in three stallions during the 2020 artificial insemination campaign.
- Coordinator/entity name: ASINCAR
- Coordinator/entity email: sergio@asincar.com
- ASINCAR
- ACGEMA
- SERIDA
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