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I have a stallion that i am going to get castrated, very soon, was due to be castrated this week, but have put it off. Would like to collect some semen from him, and get some frozen stored, can anyone help me with ideas of who does this and cost. Stallion is a 6 year old (never covered) suggestions please
 
Hobgoblins ,West Kington ,Twemlows and we also do.
Cost varies but involves lots of tests before entering the stud ,training costs and then the freezing and livery costs.
You can do epydidimal flushes to retrieve sperm post castration but the problem with this is that you cant test freeze to make sure you have the right extender so if you get it wrong its a waste of money and also the sperm tend to be immature so it doesnt have such good fertilising capacity.
some of the relevent studs websites have some good info on them which will give you some idea(sadly ours hasnt yet as not got round to it)
 
You could also check with equine-reproduction.co.uk as to whether they may be able to offer a mobile service.

In the meantime your vet can obtain samples for CEM and EVA which will be an essential check for any reproductive stallion, without negative tests it is very unlikely your horse would be allowed on to a stud for collection
 
Ditto the above about tests before going to stud. I've got a young stally same age as yours and we've decided to just go ahead and geld him, he's being done tomorrow otherwise we'll have to wait till autumn to do him - the costs involved in freezing, the time, hassle etc and the number of good stallions about just means I really can't be bothered doing it all again with this one, mine's not focusing on his job so needs his nuts off!!:D He is a stunning animal but the costs of doing it with my other stally were about £6000 to get them collected - we did ours for sending abroad too, which I wouldn't bother with again, so he needed extra tests for that, if we hadn't it would have probably been nearer £4500. Then you've got as mentioned above - training/storage etc etc, livery, transport, then you've got advertising costs/competeing/ gradings etc to get mare owners to use said stallion, then tadpole storage costs which mine is about £280 per year if I remember correctly.
So all in all a very expensive thing to do, unless of course you have a world beater and can guarentee his tadpoles will freeze and be viable and mare owners want to use him, plus you need a few of his sprogs on the ground to prove what he's passing on and as your advertising so more expense there too!! - bottomless money pit spring to mind!!!:rolleyes: :D
 
Alexart said:
Ditto the above about tests before going to stud. I've got a young stally same age as yours and we've decided to just go ahead and geld him, he's being done tomorrow otherwise we'll have to wait till autumn to do him - the costs involved in freezing, the time, hassle etc and the number of good stallions about just means I really can't be bothered doing it all again with this one, mine's not focusing on his job so needs his nuts off!!:D He is a stunning animal but the costs of doing it with my other stally were about £6000 to get them collected - we did ours for sending abroad too, which I wouldn't bother with again, so he needed extra tests for that, if we hadn't it would have probably been nearer £4500. Then you've got as mentioned above - training/storage etc etc, livery, transport, then you've got advertising costs/competeing/ gradings etc to get mare owners to use said stallion, then tadpole storage costs which mine is about £280 per year if I remember correctly.
So all in all a very expensive thing to do, unless of course you have a world beater and can guarentee his tadpoles will freeze and be viable and mare owners want to use him, plus you need a few of his sprogs on the ground to prove what he's passing on and as your advertising so more expense there too!! - bottomless money pit spring to mind!!!:rolleyes: :D
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Where on earth was that it shouldnt cost anything like that much although tests for EU/worldwide bump it up dramatically .
Most stallions will train in 2-3 days ,the longest weve ever had one was a week and there was a reason behind that.
You should be able to train and then freeze around 30 doses in 10 days ,possibly less depending on what the stallion gives you.
Some stallions can give you 25 doses from one ejaculate ,on the other hand a very young colt may only give you 5.
Tests weill be EVA,EIA ,we ask for strangles but some dont and then 2 sets of swabs taken 7 days apart(this is for english use)
30 doses would cost £180 a year to store.
 
Thanks for the replys, most helpful, i was told to expect to pay around the £1000 mark...? Will look into this this week. Alexart where did you go..? for costs of £4500-£6000. Don't want to pay this he isn't a world class horse !1 But nice enough to use on my mares, and possibly a small number of outside mares if any intrest
 
Twemlows - I did get the tests done there though for shipping worldwide so he was sat there for a week doing nothing before they could collect, he also wouldn't use a dummy mare - doesn't like blow up dolls it would seem!:D - so he would only use a jump mare. I thought it was very expensive but that was the only place that did it at the time, it must be about 8yrs ago now, and that was nearish to me - I live in Cumbria, the price has dropped a good bit now though - but didn't realise it was as low as £1000!!, I suppose because more places do it, I only got 150 or so doses if I can remember correctly. I'm still getting my boy done this afternoon though - I'd rather he got going with his career sooner rather than wait till autumn, besides the fence running thing is driving me nuts - and a whole summer of that - no thanks!!!!!:D ;)
 
Alexart said:
Twemlows - I did get the tests done there though for shipping worldwide so he was sat there for a week doing nothing before they could collect, he also wouldn't use a dummy mare - doesn't like blow up dolls it would seem!:D - so he would only use a jump mare. I thought it was very expensive but that was the only place that did it at the time, it must be about 8yrs ago now, and that was nearish to me - I live in Cumbria, the price has dropped a good bit now though - but didn't realise it was as low as £1000!!, I suppose because more places do it, I only got 150 or so doses if I can remember correctly. I'm still getting my boy done this afternoon though - I'd rather he got going with his career sooner rather than wait till autumn, besides the fence running thing is driving me nuts - and a whole summer of that - no thanks!!!!!:D ;)
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The worldwide thing does bump it up horrendously,even the EU testing makes things quite expensive.
English isnt too bad
 
West Kington stud do it- the prices are on their website- about £500 for training plus livery and semen analysis etc. Their storage depends on number of doses but I remember is about £15 per month for a good few doses.
 
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