Constructing An Emergency Slide Warmer – Sometimes lab equipment may not be available, so one has to become inventive. An emergency slide warmer is one such piece of equipment! By Jos Mottershead Sometimes lab equipment may not be available, so one has to become inventive. An emergency slide warmer is one such piece of equipment! Easily constructed –… Read More »
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 »
The Cost of Doing Business (or “Why do I have to pay so much for collections when I breed my mare using transported semen?”) – The cost of doing business when setting up for and shipping equine semen. An overview of where that money goes! By Jos Mottershead NOTE: Not all of the items of equipment listed are… Read More »
Setting Up For Semen Collection and Transport – What laboratory and other equipment is required as a minimum to set up for stallion semen collection to ship cooled semen? Find out here! By Jos Mottershead One of the most commonly asked questions that I hear is “what do I need to get started to collect for transported semen?”… 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 »
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 »