lucky lodge
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what are the results of frozen semen with mini,s any imfo on it would be great...oh any photos of stallions
that have shipped there semen and the out come would be great. to
thanks jenny...
WOW!!!!! We charged that much for a MONTH of 3x week freezing, for export.... you need to look elsewhere for other facilitiesWe've had quite a few requests for shipped semen from S Skipper or Cowboy and we have looked into it a couple of times. It's VERY pricey. When the most recent request came from out of country we decided to really do some shopping around and see how the various facilities compared from a pricing aspect.
We found the pricing about the same no matter where we checked. It would cost us $8,000 to $10,000 for one collection approved to go out of country. Now that would be a number of straws which could be sold, but the money spent by the stallion owner would go up depending on how long the semen was needing to be stored.
Probably the biggest issue for us is that the collection must be made after the stallion has been at the facility and in quarantine for a period of 40some days. Star Skipper is just too valuable to us to risk having him off farm and out of our care for that length of time.
For the kind of investment a person would have to make to get the genetics they want from shipped semen I would think buying a colt from their faovrite stallion would be by far the better way to go. I know importation can be very expensive for buyers, but I suspect it would be less then getting one straw of semen and way more of a guarantee of having a live stallion from the transaction.
Oz has some of the most stringent and difficult quarantine regimes in the world. The cost isn't getting the stallion frozen. The cost is in getting the stallion frozen in such a way that meets the requirements of whatever country you're shipping the stuff too. Oz is notoriously difficult.Length of quarantine depends on the country you are shipping to... I don't recall it being as long as 40 days! But I could be wrongIts been a while.
I believe it a reference to Australia in general.(Where is Oz?)
Hello Miss Charlotte!!We've had quite a few requests for shipped semen from S Skipper or Cowboy and we have looked into it a couple of times. It's VERY pricey. When the most recent request came from out of country we decided to really do some shopping around and see how the various facilities compared from a pricing aspect.
We found the pricing about the same no matter where we checked. It would cost us $8,000 to $10,000 for one collection approved to go out of country. Now that would be a number of straws which could be sold, but the money spent by the stallion owner would go up depending on how long the semen was needing to be stored.
Probably the biggest issue for us is that the collection must be made after the stallion has been at the facility and in quarantine for a period of 40some days. Star Skipper is just too valuable to us to risk having him off farm and out of our care for that length of time.
For the kind of investment a person would have to make to get the genetics they want from shipped semen I would think buying a colt from their faovrite stallion would be by far the better way to go. I know importation can be very expensive for buyers, but I suspect it would be less then getting one straw of semen and way more of a guarantee of having a live stallion from the transaction.
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