When Nature Meets Science: Breeding With Frozen Semen
Natalie DeFee Mendik, MA
April 14, 2016
What you need to know and expect when using this breeding method.
What you need to know and expect when using this breeding method.
The month of the year appears to have a significant impact on several parameters of collected semen in stallions.
Researchers are hoping to make the preferred embryo freezing procedure available to more breeders.
Cryopreserved epididymal sperm can be valuable if a stallion will be castrated or if he dies unexpectedly.
A recap of studies on topics ranging from prostaglandin treatment of mares to semen quality in stallions.
Frozen semen offers many advantages, but it is important to understand that not all frozen semen is the same.
Lord Nelson, or “PICSI,” was the first foal produced via intracytoplasmic sperm injection to be born at UC Davis.
Infertile mare? Deceased stallion? No problem! Equine reproduction is now high-tech enough to overcome these hurdles.
The team hopes to make this process more accessible to breeders in the future.
One vet said sperm quality thresholds his team identified can help practitioners make better breeding decisions.
Studies covered biofilms, chilled and frozen semen, endometritis, placentitis, oxidative stress and fertility, and more.
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The benefits of using frozen semen when breeding a mare are numerous.
Researchers recently accepted the challenge of producing onager foals via artificial insemination.
Learn what different semen evaluations can tell veterinarians about a stallion’s fertility.
The filly, born July 27, is the first Przewalski’s Horse to be bred using artificial insemination.
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