YK Genetics Korean beef and dairy business is building a large-scale production system in Korea through many technological innovations, including the production of 1% elite Korean beef embryo.
In the livestock industry, the division of labor specialized in each genre was common in various fields such as breeding farms, breeding farms, non-breeding farms, and dairy farms. However, YK Genetics does not necessarily presuppose division of labor, which is also a rule of this industry, and aims to improve production value and productivity by systematically forming its own production system. In addition, we are expanding the value of the brand in Korea by linking the Korean beef business with the dairy business and improving productivity, and based on this, we are expanding with the goal markets.
The early business model of YK Genetics is to produce high-quality Korean beef calves by transplanting high-quality Korean beef embryo into Holstein, and after applying it to the dairy business, excellent Korean beef calves production was applied to Korean beef breeding farms.
In most cases, domestic Korean beef farmers and dairy farmers entrust the reproduction of calves by conceiving them to veterinarians with professional know-how. In addition, artificial fertilization (AI) and embryo transplantation (ET) are being distributed as breeding methods, but the latter "embryo transplantation" is highly technical and expensive. Therefore, in general, there are overwhelming cases in which the method of 'artificial insemination' is adopted in actual breeding.
However, this difficulty of embryo transplantation is an important factor and starting point in the production system of YK Genetics Korean beef and dairy business. At the beef ranch of Korean beef, future generations give birth to excellent Korean beef, and at the dairy ranch, they give birth to Korean beef in Holstar race. As a result of large-scale development of this production model, one Holstein can produce superior Korean beef calves, which is a business model that can deliver more than twice the value to farmers to promote harmony between dairy and Korean beef farmers.
1) An in vivo embryo
The production of embryo from superior ovulation to hyperovulation
2) An IVF egg
The technology of collecting embryo from ovum inhalation (OPU) in living cattle follicles or ovum from slaughtered cows, performing in vitro fertilization, and then transplanting and conceiving embryo into surrogate mothers.
개체별 난소 채취
난소에서 난포란 흡입
체외수정
체외 배양 7일 반포
수정란 이식3) Advantages of embryo transplantation
Produce superior cattle in a short period of time
- Production of high-capacity Korean beef embryo by tracking individual lineage
- Transplantation and freezing of embryo (1+, 1++) for registration of three major bloodlines
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OPU fertilized egg production process
1. 공란우 선정
2. 채란(OPU)
3. 난자선정-체외수정
4. 우량배반포 생산
5. 수정란 이식
6. 수태 감정YKgenetics
