Table 1. Fertility AI-outcomes and seminal plasma total antioxidant capacity (SP-TAC, mmol/L) of the liquid semen of 18 boars (2,500 × 106 sperm/dose).
Boars | SP-TAC (mean ± SEM) | Sows inseminated (n°) | Farrowing Rate (%) | Total Piglets Born (mean ± SEM) | Fertility Indexa |
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1 | 0.91 ± 0.04 | 225 | 84.00 ± 2.68 | 13.50 ± 0.28 | 11.34 |
2 | 0.90 ± 0.01 | 382 | 86.65 ± 1.70 | 12.98 ± 0.16 | 11.25 |
3 | 0.77 ± 0.06 | 456 | 84.43 ± 1.88 | 12.79 ± 0.16 | 10.80 |
4 | 0.72 ± 0.01 | 801 | 86.64 ± 1.29 | 13.92 ± 0.12 | 12.06 |
5 | 0.71 ± 0.01 | 294 | 85.71 ± 2.25 | 13.91 ± 0.24 | 11.92 |
6 | 0.67 ± 0.04 | 546 | 89.01 ± 1.47 | 13.96 ± 0.14 | 12.43 |
7 | 0.66 ± 0.05 | 163 | 90.18 ± 1.99 | 14.06 ± 0.27 | 12.68 |
8 | 0.66 ± 0.02 | 350 | 90.86 ± 2.75 | 13.87 ± 0.15 | 12.60 |
9 | 0.66 ± 0.02 | 487 | 91.79 ± 1.50 | 13.74 ± 0.16 | 12.61 |
10 | 0.61 ± 0.03 | 579 | 87.91 ± 1.57 | 12.94 ± 0.15 | 11.38 |
11 | 0.52 ± 0.04 | 111 | 88.29 ± 3.64 | 12.44 ± 0.32 | 10.98 |
12 | 0.52 ± 0.02 | 107 | 84.11 ± 4.53 | 12.64 ± 0.30 | 10.64 |
13 | 0.51 ± 0.02 | 140 | 87.86 ± 3.45 | 13.27 ± 0.29 | 11.66 |
14 | 0.46 ± 0.01 | 182 | 83.52 ± 3.00 | 12.48 ± 0.31 | 10.42 |
15 | 0.44 ± 0.06 | 131 | 83.21 ± 2.80 | 11.80 ± 0.29 | 9.82 |
16 | 0.44 ± 0.01 | 191 | 83.25 ± 3.47 | 13.13 ± 0.22 | 10.93 |
17 | 0.34 ± 0.02 | 189 | 83.07 ± 2.78 | 13.21 ± 0.24 | 10.97 |
18 | 0.29 ± 0.02 | 212 | 82.60 ± 3.19 | 12.06 ± 0.36 | 10.05 |
Boars were hierarchically grouped as high (1-10) and low (11-18) SP-TAC values.
aThe total number of piglets born as a proportion of the number of sows inseminated by each boar.