I have a young stallion 4 yr old that I have just started to collect on the phantom. I have now collected him twice about 5 days a part. The second time I had just received my hemocytometer so I did a count on him and came up with 80. I am very concerned at this point because he has a lot of mares to ship to. Will the count go up after some more collections? Is there something I can give him to help increase the count?
I have a 2 year old stallion we are breeding for the 1st time this breeding season. We have serviced 5 mares to him thus far. Only one is in foal. When we first started breeding we collected him and he had a good count. After the 3rd and 4th mare came up open, we had him checked again. Dead sperm. No swimmers at all. Could we possibly be breeding him too much? We are breeding every other day on the mares in heat. He has had about a week off between. Only 2 times we bred him daily. I am concerned that we have purchased a dud stud. We have an older stallion that we started breeding as a 2 year old also. He is now 5 and we have never not gotten a mare in foal with him. I guess we were spoiled to that. We are breeding on another mare that has come back in heat again. Any suggestions?
I have a young stallion 4 yr old that I have just started to collect on the phantom. I have now collected him twice about 5 days a part.
I just read yesterday that due to the quantity of semen stored in the testes, (or wherever it is stored there) you need to collect something in the neighborhood of twice daily (8 hrs apart) for 6 days before you'd deplete the stores and be working on daily production.
I also read that stallions don't reach their full production potential till about 5 yrs of age, and it doesn't go downhill any till about 18 yrs old.
Kim, no, you arent breeding him too much, but 2 yr olds just don't have the sperm count older stallions do, even at the 3 yr old year, they are a lot more fertile. If it is possible, stallions with low sperm counts do best settling mares pasture breeding. do a little reading/research on it. THere are risks involved, mostly from stallion being kicked by unrestrained mares, so you need to be informed of the pros and cons.
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