The Inseminator

1. The Inseminator Jobdescription from the german BTB BTB e.V.

2. Prerequisites to exercise as an inseminator • Affection and interest in the animals and agriculture • Joy for car driving • Accuracy, reliability, sens of duty • Organiszing abiltity • Compliance with hygiene regulations • Skillfulness, diligence and the disposition fo irregular working hours also on weekends and Sundays • Discretion, confidentiality • Proper conduct with fellow human beings and customers • Highly principled BTB e.V.

3. The way to become a reproduction professionalEducation • German cattle breeding law • Admission prerequisites: • 18 years • Apprenticeship or course of studies – cattle breeding topics – part of the exam • Completed a comparable apprenticeship + min 6 month practical experience in farming • 6 month internship at an insemination station or • four years at a farm with livestock breeding and three month insemination station BTB e.V.

4. Training to become an insemination representative • Only cattle - 5 weeks • Cattle and pigs - 6 weeks • Two training locations in germany: • Dr. Dr. Eible–Training Center for Inseminators in Neustadt a. d. Aisch ( Bavaria ) • Institut für Fortpflanzung landw. Nutztiere e. V. (IFN) in Schönow (Berlin) (Instítut for reproduction of agriculture animals) BTB e.V.

5. Advanced training:Certified Insemination Technican • Acknowledged Job • Represents a career opportunity within the agricutural sector • Comparable to a official master craftsman diploma • The diploma can allow access to a university of applied sciences • Embryo transfer is part of training • Flushing Embryos from donor and transfer BTB e.V.

6. Admission prerequisites - final exams of C. I. • Passed exams to become a farmer • Received training at a technical school or comparable educational institution min 1 year • + Can verify practical experience as insemination representative – min. 3 years If the first two prerequisites are not fulfilled: • Additional 6 years practical experience as insemation representative. BTB e.V.

7. Activities – Reproduktion Profi • Feeding, keeping • Offspring assessment • Fertility examination • Mating • Testing for hereditary defects • Sperm generation • Insemination • Pregnancy examination • Ultrasonic diagnostics • Embryo transfer • Sell semen BTB e.V.

8. BTB motto Further education is a prerequisite to make career BTB e.V.

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