Equine system for non-surgical artificial insemination

摘要

Non-surgical artificial insemination is achieved for sexed and unsexed equines in a commercially practical manner and with dosages of insemination sperm that were not previously thought to be practical for commercial implementation. Practical and field usable techniques for insemination are presented as well as techniques which offer success ratios at level comparable to the existing routine, high dosage unsexed artificial insemination techniques in equines. Improved insemination and sorting systems particularly adapted to use for sex-selected sperm are disclosed. Such artificial insemination techniques include depositing the sperm at the tip of the uterine horn with a flexible probe or pipette to allow fertilization to occur. Such techniques are further improved by first confirming that the mare has ovulated before insemination. Such techniques allow for the successful insemination with very low numbers of sperm.