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! »
Phantom Training The Stallion – An Overview By Jos Mottershead Phantom training the stallion 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 course ejaculation. The condition the stallion must undergo to achieve that is to mount the phantom mare (also… Read More: An Overview of Training the Stallion to Use the Breeding… »
Equine Reproduction Books (presented in part in association with amazon.com) More equine reproduction books will be added, either reviewed or not, as they come to our attention. If you are familiar with a particular book which you would like to recommend, please click here and use the form to send us the information (title, author, publisher) and if… Read More: Equine Reproduction Books »
Cooled Semen Extender Evaluation Service Facts about cooled semen extenders and your stallion Not all stallions have sperm that will respond the same to all extenders; Not only do different extenders have different ingredients, but there can be a difference in the response you see from your stallion’s sperm to different antibiotics used within those extenders! There is… Read More: Extender Evaluation »
Shipped Semen Evaluation Service Have you ever wondered what the semen you ship out really looks like at the receiving end? Have you ever had a situation where the sample you sent was reported to you as being “dead”, but the one you saved from the same ejaculate for evaluation was very much alive? Have you even just… Read More: Shipped Evaluation »
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