Artificial insemination in goats

Abstract

Artificial insemination (AI) is the oldest reproductive biotechnique and has contributed to increase the animal breeding in goat herds of all over the world. AI is a biotechnique of easy application, being the most used among the other ones. However, AI requires a series of integrated management systems to obtain success. In goat species, many steps should be respected to AI success, such as, basic infrastructure of the farm, selection of semen type to be used, selection of the does to be inseminated, and even the pregnancy diagnosis. In spite of the low use of AI in Brazilian Northeast, this biotechnique has presented promising, and its use should increase with the technification and with the higher instructions level of the farms owners. Therefore, this review has the objective of explain the fundamental aspects of AI in goats. Keywords: Artificial insemination, goat, reproductive biotechnique, semen.