Uterine Swabs, Smears and Cultures. – What should a stallion owner do to protect the Live Cover stallion from pathogenic transfer? An overview of swabs smears and cultures. By Jos Mottershead Printed in “The Reproduction Forum” in the CSHA Newsletter, 1996; “Atlantic Horse and Pony” (combined with other material) February 1996 Q: As a stallion owner, what procedures… Read More: How Clean is that Mare? »
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: Warming Semen in the Field »
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: Individual Tuition »
The Semen Looked Bad – Or Is It? Maybe not as bad as you think! A review of what constitutes a cooled semen dose, looking at some newer research and older dogma. By Jos Mottershead and Kathy St. Martin During the course of the breeding season – especially on the EquineRepro Facebook Group that we manage – we… Read More: You’re Ready to Breed Your Mare – But is the… »
Steps for Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US – A step-by-step guide to the USDA and CFIA requirements for Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US. By Jos Mottershead and Kathy St. Martin It should be noted that while this article about the regulatory aspects of shipping horse semen to Canada from the US is… Read More: Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US »
Education At Equine-Reproduction.com, LLC we are all about education. In fact, the domain came into being over 20 years ago because of some reproduction articles that were being hosted on one of our personal pages and which were getting so many “hits” that the host told us we needed to get our own domain and stop using the… Read More: Education »
The Cost of Doing Business in Shipping Semen (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… Read More: The Cost of Doing Business – Setup Costs for Semen… »
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 basic equipment required for stallion semen collection do I need to… Read More: Getting Set Up for Semen Collection »
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 (“AVs”), but one that we particularly favour and use is the INRA (French model) AV from IMV. We have used this AV to… Read More: Assembling Your New INRA-AV and Preparing for Collection »
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 Plans – Build Your Own Breeding Mount! »
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