Table 1.

Probability of producing a certain number of live progeny per female per mating for artificial insemination (AI) or natural mating (AI/N), MOET and JIVET in different species

Progeny number/program	AI/N12a	AI/Na	AI/Nc	AId	MOETb,e	JIVETb
Species	Sheep	Sheep	Beef	Dairy	All	All
0	0.40	0.10	0.07	0.15	0.10	0.25
1	0.58	0.70	0.92	0.85	0.05	0.05
2	0.02	0.20	0.01	0.00	0.05	0.18
3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.18
4	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.25	0.10
5	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.10
6	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.13	0.07
7	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.04
8	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.03
Average number of progeny	0.62	1.1	0.94	0.85	4.02	8.37f
Range of progeny possible	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–8	0–24

AI/N7 probability for a ewe at 12 months of age of having a lamb

^a[22]

^b[23]

^c[24]

^d[25]

^e[26]

^fPredicted average of total progeny of three JIVET matings