Cornell Resources about Reproduction in Small Ruminants

March 21, 2022
Cornell Resources about Reproduction in Small Ruminants

Reproduction

Introduction to out of season breeding and synchronizing heats in small ruminants

Using the EAZI-Breed CIDR-G for Out-of-Season Breeding in Ewes (PDF) by Dr. Keith Inskeep - This document provides the basis for using progesterone CIDRs (controlled internal drug releasing devices) to synchronize estrus or to start the reproductive cycles of ewes that may not be cycling during spring, when daylength is increasing.

Reproductive results from breeding our milking ewes in March-April and June have been dramatically better than those reported in this paper. That may be due to the exposure of the ewes to vasectomized rams about 10 days prior to the insertion of CIDRs.

Out Of Season Breeding in Goats by Dr. tatiana Stanton -  while originally written for meat goats it contains lots of information on standard practices in dairy goats and sheep

Cornell Sheep Dairy Protocols for synchronization and out of season breeding in sheep

American Institute For Goat Research Protocols for synchronization and out of season breeding in goats

Artificial Insemination in Small Ruminants

Goat Artificial Insemination Video Course 11 video series funded in part by Univ. of Maine, Cornell University, Cornell Coop. Ext. of St. Lawrence County and Northeast SARE (Project One19-377)

Goat AI supplemental handout- Dr. James Weber DVM supplemental 17-page guide for the above course covering heat synchronization, mucus evaluation, buck collection, semen evaluation & processing, etc.

Artificial Insemination Manual for Goats  by Dr. Terry Gipson, PhD and Dr. Lionel Dawson, DVM - 54 page manual originally prepared by the American Institute for Goat Research for workshops in Kenya and Malawi and now used in U.S. courses.

Goat Repro Videos - Dr. Terry Gipson & Dr. Lou Nuti:  Hands-on AI 9 min,  AI Kit 6 min, Buck Effect 6 min, Estrus Synchronization 5 min, Semen Tank Handling 6 min, Signs of Estrus 35 sec

Vaginal Method for Sheep AI using chilled ram semen by Dr. Jim Weber, DVM, PhD, Univ. of Maine - based on method used in Iceland - details from Thorstein Olafsson, Aug 2017)

Semen Processing in Goats by Dr. Lou Nuti, International Dairy Goat Center, Prairie View A & M - an older manual but still helpful as an introduction

How to make an artificial vaginal for bucks and rams

Basics of collecting a ram or buck




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