Welcome to Croft Reproduction
Croft Veterinary Practice offers a full specialised canine reproduction service. Our team of fully qualified veterinary surgeons with an interest in canine reproduction is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to meet all your dog breeding requirements.

Progesterone Lab Request Form Download the form complete it and send it with your payment to us at the address on the form. We promise to report the result on the day we receive the sample. It is not recommended to use conventional post unless delivery can be guaranteed next day.

Meet the Team Our Canine Reproduction Team is headed by Louise McLean, a veterinary surgeon with many years experience of small animal veterinary practice, and a particular interest in endocrinology and reproduction. Louise has studied canine reproduction in the United States and has now brought the very best of techniques back to the UK

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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.

 

Collection of Semen

The collection of semen from dogs is a procedure that many breeders are happy to do themselves. Others, however, may not feel that they have the experience to collect a good semen sample or feel that they do not wish to do it. At Croft Referrals we are happy to collect semen from your dog, whether this is for assessment, chilling, chilling for shipping, or freezing. Collecting a semen sample is easier if a bitch in oestrus is present and if the dog is used to having people around him while he mates a bitch. We have facilities to fully assess the quality of the semen and preserve it to maximize fertility. We understand that the timings involved in the export of fresh frozen semen can be fraught with problems, and to maximize the quality of the semen we are available to collect, evaluate, chill and freeze semen 365 days a year. At Croft Reproduction we can also video the microscopic appearance of the semen as a record of its quality and activity, so giving you additional peace of mind. Also, should you wish to learn how to best collect semen from your dog we will be happy to teach you how to do this.

 

For further details or to book an appointment for semen collection
please contact us at:

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