Semen Services
We offer a full stud dog fertility examination service, unlike some services that can evaluate the semen only but are not qualified to examining the dog or most veterinary surgeons that have no experience in semen evaluation. We are all fully qualified veterinary surgeons with experience in semen evaluation so we offer a complete service to fully assess the fertility of your stud dog. We can also trial chill or freeze your dogs semen to assess its suitability for preservation by these methods. Collection of semen from stud dogs is usually a fairly straight forward procedure, as long as the dog is used to having people around him during mating. Bringing a bitch in heat with you that the dog can mount with usually help with semen collection and may improve the quality of sample collected.
Assessment of Semen
Croft Reproduction can assess the quality of semen samples. This could be needed for any number of reasons:
• Bitches missing,
• Prior to freezing
• Before shipping, particularly before shipping any dog’s semen for the
first time.
The quantity of semen obtained per collection is dependent on the dog's sperm count and size. Most medium to large breeds produce 4-5 breeding units of 100 million sperm cells. Small dogs may only produce 1 –2 breeding units. In general, a young mature dog (18 months -5 years of age) will have a higher sperm count and better quality semen than older dogs or young immature dogs. Breeders may need to obtain more than one ejaculation in order to obtain sufficient semen for their breeding plans.
For further details or to make an appointment for semen assessment
please contact us:
Croft Reproduction
Croft Vets
Northumberland Business Park West
Cramlington
Northumberland
NE23 7RH
Telephone: 0191 2503800
Email info(at)croft-reproduction.co.uk
www.croft-reproduction.co.uk
