• 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.