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. 2022 Jan 28;11(2):210. doi: 10.3390/biology11020210

Table 7.

Economic comparison between ejaculate fraction/s included in the seminal dose (F1 vs. F2 vs. F3) in terms of cost reduction per AI and piglet born alive.

F1 F2 F3
Number of sows inseminated 100 100 100
Number of AI/sow per estrus 1 2.55 2.55 2.55
Seminal dose cost (€) 2 3.91 3.54 3.18
Seminal dose cost/100 inseminated sows (€) 3 997.05 902.70 810.90
Piglets born alive/100 inseminated sows (€) 4 1521 1517 1589
Seminal dose cost reduction/100 inseminated sows (€) # 0 94.35 186.15 ††
Cost reduction/inseminated sow (€) # 0 0.94 ¥ 1.86 ¥¥
Cost reduction/piglet born alive (€) # 0 0.06 * 0.12 **

1 Average of AIs per sow performed in our study. 2 Calculated in Table 6. 3 Calculated as: number of AIs (100) × number of AI/sow (2.55) × seminal dose cost. 4 Data collected from our study (Table 4). # Calculated based on F1 as the seminal dose type reference. Calculated as: seminal dose cost per 100 inseminated sows using F1—seminal dose cost per 100 inseminated sows using F3. †† Calculated as: seminal dose cost per 100 inseminated sows using F1—seminal dose cost per 100 inseminated sows using F2. ¥ Calculated as: seminal dose cost reduction per 100 inseminated sows using F2/100. ¥ ¥ Calculated as: seminal dose cost reduction per 100 inseminated sows using F3/100. * Calculated as: seminal dose cost reduction per 100 inseminated sows using F2/piglets born alive per 100 inseminated sows using F2. ** Calculated as: seminal dose cost reduction per 100 inseminated sows using F3/piglets born alive per 100 inseminated sows using F3.