Artificial Insemination in the Equine

Collection Facility and Laboratory

Collection of Stallion

Collection Area

• Clean and safe, good footing• Phantom or dummy “mare”• In close proximity to laboratory• Restraint equipment (hobbles, twitch, etc.)• Cleaning and collection supplies for

stallion and mare• 1. Each stallion should have separate bucket• 2. Artificial Vagina and parts. Water holding cylinder with

handle, inner removable liner, collection bottle with filter to trap gel fraction, thermal covering for collection bottle.

Phantom

Collection Supplies

Restraint Equipment• “Using Mare as Jump Mare”

Stallion Restraint

Cleaning Stallion Penis“Clean warm water”

Laboratory Supplies

• Check Semen Volume (average 30-120ml)

Incubator • 100 Fahrenheit or 38 Celsius

Morphology and Motility>65% progressive motility (average)

Semen Concentration average - 150 to 250 million sperm/ml.

Densimeter

Inseminate Mare500million sperm per inseminate

14 Day Ultrasound Preg-Check