This weeek we received two shipments from a breeding farm. Neither contained any sort of report on the collection, no date, evaluation of motility, type of extender used, etc.
This left me feeling a little uneasy. Other stallion owners I've used in past have always included this information in their shipments of transported semen. Was I just lucky previously?
I have known a few shipments without them. Even one of the Approved stallion for the Friesian's have failed to put a report in with the semen. So it all depends.
Thank you Hope and Heather for your replies. It was rather a surpise to me not see any semen evaluation paperwork.
We recently had the two mares preg. checked, and one was found to be in foal. As my vet put it, "Your mare didn't care if there wasn't any paperwork included."
So although the one mare didn't care, the other did???
Not incuding paperwork is one of the major bugaboos of the transported semen world. When all goes well, it's not an issue, but when things don't go right it can mean the difference between success and failure.
If we receive semen with no paperwork, we regard that as prima facie indication that the semen was not processed with as much care and attention as it deserved. If sperm counts and correct extensions are being performed, how difficult is it to include paperwork?
In recognition of the fact that the math and getting the correct dilution rates can be difficult, we created an on-line semen calculator, part of which allows the printing of all of the forms as the last part of the process. We hope that this is being used, and would be interested to hear comments and thoughts from people if they are either using this or have received semen with the forms from the calculator printed out (it shows on the form that it was from the Equine-Reproduction.com web site).
I wish I had known there were supposed to be papers with our shipments of several years ago. It got really expensive to keep having the vet out to use the shipment and find all the sperm dead. The owner finally admitted she had switched extender brands, it was supposed to be exactly the same extender, different name. to make a long story short, once she had the vet collect, mix and CHECK, the mare got in foal the first try. The paperwork itself maybe isn't so important, but that they MUST check the shipment to fill out the paperwork, now that is important! Lori
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