Sexed Equine Semen Available Commercially in 2010
The ability to have stallion semen sorted for sex-selected foals is being offered on a commercial basis through a new alliance between Sexing Technologies and Equine Reproduction Innovations. The use of sex-selected semen in conjunction with intracytoplasmic sperm injection will be offered to horse breeders for the 2010 breeding season.
Why used sexed semen?
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The ability to have stallion semen sorted for sex-selected foals is being offered on a commercial basis through a new alliance between Sexing Technologies and Equine Reproduction Innovations. The use of sex-selected semen in conjunction with intracytoplasmic sperm injection will be offered to horse breeders for the 2010 breeding season.
Why used sexed semen?
Since the dawn of time, people have tried to influence the gender of offspring, from humans to cattle.
In 1998, the world's first sex-selected horse, "Call Me Madam" was produced by XY Inc. of Fort Collins, Colo. While XY Inc. continued their research and production of sex-selected foals, the service was not commercially available to breeders
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