Procedures
For Using Cooled Semen
- Do not open container until you are ready to inseminate the
mare.
- Remove semen from packaging and inseminate the mare
immediately. Do not warm semen before inseminating.
- If you wish to evalute the semen motility, make three slides
and place them in an incubator while you inseminate the mare.
Evaluate the motility slides individually over a 15-minute
period. Do not warm the sample in a water bath or microwave.
- Upon availability, two insemination doses will be provided in
case your mare ovulates later than expected. Use one dose
immediately. The second dose should be kept as packaged in the
thermal cup and placed in a refrigerator for use the following
day. The refrigerator should be kept at 40 degrees F. ( 5
degrees C. ). The Equitainer will not keep the second dose
cool enough once it has been opened.
REMEMBER: Rapid variation in temperature adversely
affects semen quality. Please handle quickly and carefully.
- Put coolant cans, thermal cup, ballast bags, and semen/cup
with lid back into the Equitainer and ship it back to us without
delay.
NOTICE: In the Equitainer with your shipment are
important forms. Please insure that you fill them out correctly
and mail them to the proper party as soon as possible.
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