Artificial insemination of sheep on farms

The artificial insemination (Al) in sheep has shrunken to minimum level in Hungary during the last decades. While more than 60% of ewe population were inseminated during the second part of 1960's, only 2% of the ewes were inseminated artificially. The authors evaluated the data and results of 10 sheep farms (with about 8-9 thousand ewes belonging to various breeds) using Al. They established that the artificial insemination could be used with very high efficiency even in the present farming conditions, the results using this method could even exceed the 90%. According to the results, the insemination carried out by the shepherd or the owner had better success than the work made by the service companies.