I have a friend of mine who is considering importing semen from outside the UK and obviously the only way to use this is with AI.
AI is very rarely done in dobes over here so very few of us have experience with results, while i know that a fair few of the breeders on here have done AI both normal and surgical.
A few questions i guess, what is the average litter size, my friends kennel litter average is about 8 so fairly standard size.
Is it the done thing to do 2 implantations or is one enough, they recently progesterone blood tested a bitch for mating but it wasnt very accurate so looking for other options on that front.
Because of location fresh cooled and sent over night doesn't seem to be possibility so would be working from frozen, what success have people had from frozen AI's.
From what i have personally read i would imagine that surgical AI would be more successful as you are placing the semen right in the horns where it needs to be but I am also not a fan of putting a dog under a GA willy nilly.
I do remember a thread a loooooooooooong time ago of someone who took photos and did a story line along with their bitch having AI but cant remember for the life of me who it was!
trying to give them as much help as possible but these are obviously questions i dont have any answers to but i know the masses of DT do.
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AI is very rarely done in dobes over here so very few of us have experience with results, while i know that a fair few of the breeders on here have done AI both normal and surgical.
A few questions i guess, what is the average litter size, my friends kennel litter average is about 8 so fairly standard size.
Is it the done thing to do 2 implantations or is one enough, they recently progesterone blood tested a bitch for mating but it wasnt very accurate so looking for other options on that front.
Because of location fresh cooled and sent over night doesn't seem to be possibility so would be working from frozen, what success have people had from frozen AI's.
From what i have personally read i would imagine that surgical AI would be more successful as you are placing the semen right in the horns where it needs to be but I am also not a fan of putting a dog under a GA willy nilly.
I do remember a thread a loooooooooooong time ago of someone who took photos and did a story line along with their bitch having AI but cant remember for the life of me who it was!
trying to give them as much help as possible but these are obviously questions i dont have any answers to but i know the masses of DT do.
G