One-on-one Horse Breeding Training While we are renowned for offering short courses on the subject of horse breeding worldwide, we not infrequently encounter people either at the courses or through our website who are in need of more specific one-on-one horse breeding training. Perhaps they do not own stallions but want to learn more about the reproductive aspects… Read More »
Putting together an INRA (French) AV (the Equine-Reproduction.com way) – A pictorial description of assembling the INRA (French) AV with the technique used at Equine-Reproduction.com, LLC At Equine-Reproduction.com we use a variety of artificial vaginas (“AV’s”), but the one that we particularly favour and use the most is the INRA (French model) AV from IMV. We have used… Read More »
The Home-Built Power-pole Breeding Mount or “Phantom” – How to build a phantom mare (breeding mount) for collecting semen from stallions. Detailed plans for a homemade power-pole mount. By Jos Mottershead Building a phantom mare (breeding mount) for stallions can be cheap and easy and we have built a lot of these very simple power-pole breeding mounts (also… Read More »
Phantom Training The Stallion – An Overview – A short description of phantom training the stallion in order to collect semen for AI, using the breeding mount. By Jos Mottershead Phantom training is not as hard as one might imagine it to be. It involves conditioned reflex response (remember “Pavlov’s dogs” from school science?) The response is of… Read More »
Available Equine Reproduction Services Read about our Epididymal Flush Semen Freezing Service below! Sperm motility evaluations are performed using our Hamilton-Thorne CEROS Computer Assisted Semen Analyzer! Semen Freezing Services Equine-Reproduction.com staff have been successfully freezing stallion semen for over 30 years. Being involved in research has permitted some innovative techniques to be used and developed, allowing, for example,… Read More »
The Artificial Vagina – 5 different commonly used types of equine artificial vagina compared – Colorado, Missouri, French (INRA), BotuPharma (Brazillian) and Roanoke The artificial vagina or “A.V.” is the tool most commonly used for semen collection from stallions for use in artificial insemination programs, for the semen to be frozen, or for analysis. There are many types… Read More »