Adding these supplements to stallions’ diets could help counteract the phenomenon of lower sperm quality in the winter.
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 manual is based on basic science, research, and clinical experience from a commercial embryo transfer program.
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.
The technology behind equine embryo transfers means exciting assisted reproduction options are on the horizon.
Studies covered biofilms, chilled and frozen semen, endometritis, placentitis, oxidative stress and fertility, and more.
The ruling overturned a lower court decision mandating that the AQHA include clones in its registry.
Researchers implanted embryos from ponies, saddle horses, and draft horses into surrogate mares of different sizes and observed significant differences in weight, height, and metabolic markers among the resulting genetic half-siblings
Are there size recommendations for a building a breeding dummy for a Quarter Horse stallion?
Several groups support the AQHA in its bid to overturn a court decision regarding cloned horse registrations.
The benefits of using frozen semen when breeding a mare are numerous.
The AQHA has filed the latest installment in a long-running court case relative to cloned horse registration.
Researchers recently accepted the challenge of producing onager foals via artificial insemination.
The AQHA has asked a federal court to stay clone registrations pending the outcome of an appeal.
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