Standards and Procedure for Breeding Animals, 2015.

In exercise of the powers conferred under sections 8 to 12 of Chapter 3 of the Punjab Livestock Breeding Act 2014 vested to the Livestock Breeding Service Authority and the said Authority makes the standards and procedures for animal breeding. It specifies the following Standards: Operating Procedures for Animal Performance Recording and Progeny Testing; Breeding males for artificial or natural insemination; Physical Infrastructure for Semen Production Facilities; Semen Collection and Preservation Standards, etc. Before taking Up the progeny testing programme, breeding objectives i.e. main purpose of keeping that particular breed should be clear. It may be combination of few or many traits. For Sahiwal cattle or Nili-Ravi buffaloes, for example, progeny testing is being done for milky yield while traits like fat yield, type/beauty etc. are only rarely considered. These are some of the topics dealt with the document: 10. Selection of candidate bulls; 11. Semen collection and storage; 12. Artificial breeding in the registered herds; 13. Genetic evaluation of animals, etc.