Majestic Tree H
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I ran some Test on 4 Different Freeze Extenders, The one I was using One Extender From Partners Animal Health But The DryIce Shipping Cost Doubled to $78 Just for Shipping of their Product !!!!! .. So Out of the 4, I had the Very Best Results with "Canine-EXT" Plus they Send enought Product to Collect on 7-10 Dogs depending on concentration of the Sample .. Above All other Products on the Market when Freezing in Straws and Pellets I have been getting around 92-94% Thaw Recovery with the EXT .. Which I belive is the Org. Canine Freeze Extender "Uppsala Equex Formula" .. Also If you have a Compounding Pharm near you they can make it ..

For Both Canine-EXT Part A and Part B inc. Shiping cost around $62 plus Glyceral for another $5.00 and 3 Egg Yokes .. so say $70.00 and like I said you can collect on at least 7 Large Hounds with that Order .. $10.00 Per Extended Dog .. Thats Cheep to Put up !!
!!!!! Very Important about this Extender (And any Other Used) is a Very Accurate Sperm count of a Finished Pre Freeze Count of 200 Million Sperm per ML !!!!
I use 2 different Counting Methods .. A stright Manual Count and a On Screen Computer Count .. The On Screen allows me to Sort out the Dud Sperm like Double Heads, Bent Tails, Mid Segment ect. As shown in this Photo I took .. Red maked Sperm are Defective Blue are Mature Sperm .

Sending Frozen Sperm Is a Whole Different Game !! Its Very Costly both in Equipment and Shipping .. I shair a Vacuum Shipper with a Local Boar Goat Farm ..
When Posible Fresh Chilled Semen is the Only way to go and I have been using Dr. Kenny with A&K pen. and Have had Sperm at 4^C in the Frig up to 7 days at 58% Live and Spun and Re-extended then Extracted most all of the Live Sperm .. (After Re-Extention let the sample to Rest for 2 hours the Dead Sperm will fall to the Botom of the Cenrifuge Tube then only Extract the Upper column of Fluid)
There are 3 Major Factors to Extending Semen !!!!!!!
Equal Temperture of both Semen and Extender .. Temperture Shock Kills !! This is why I like to use a Incubater over depending over using Room Temp. "just put your Semen Centrifuge Tube and Extender Centrifuge tube in the Incubater and allow to Equlize"
PH of the Semen !! If theres a Variance in PH then the Extender must be added Very Slowly and may take as long as 10 min. "Just like Adding New Fish to a Aquariam, Allow the "Fish over time to adjust to PH and Temp"
Extended Semen Count !!!
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