Collectis® automated boar collection technology

The challenge of employee management, the difficulty to find adequate labor, and constant pressure on production costs, have been major challenges for boar stud managers worldwide. Since the early 1990s, equipment suppliers have been offering multiple solutions for automation for semen collection and processing. Most of these have centered around the laboratory, but a few have addressed semen collection, as it is one of the more labor-intensive aspects of a boar center. In 2000, Genes Diffusion (Douai, France) developed an automatic boar collection system (Collectis®). The system was first tested and implemented in France, and subsequently tested in other countries over the last 3 years. In the present study, we provide a large data set related to the use of Collectis®. It was noteworthy that Collectis® had no impact on semen output (number of doses/boar), but had a significant impact on labor, increasing the number of collections per employee per hour by 90%.