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β Pooling provides βinsuranceβ (can be very important in smaller studs or when selling semen;
β Improves overall performance when subfertile boars cannot be identified;
β Improves the efficiency of processing and packaging semen.
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β Averages in subfertile boars and leaves them in the population;
β Averages best boars as well β reducing their overall contribution;
β Prevents linking paternity to progeny (would have to record every insemination dose with the corresponding sow;
β Requires higher sperm doses to βcompensateβ for subfertile boars.