Registered: Mar 2009
Location: tn
Posts: 667

I have been reading that frozen semen can now be sexed to seperate the x and y chromosone, and determine if the baby will be male or female. This is being done with cattle and horses, with a single embryo. I don't know if it is possible with multiple embryos, but if it was, would you pay the extra $1000.00 to insure a litter of all male or female. Could really be a game changer for some breeders of long gone super studs. Which would you prefer, male or female, and why? Or do you think this is going a little too far, and we should just leave mother nature alone? What are your thoughts?

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: airville,pa
Posts: 2072

sorting semen is the cheaper way they do it with cattle instead of by the embryo. i perfer to hunt a female but the right stud dog is worth way more. to each his own!

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Registered: Feb 2005
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I for 1 welcome the "increase in knowledge",and try to the best of my abilities to embrace it(if appliciable).Looking at this from a business point of view. If I had a sizeable backing that the majority of the pups R what my backers wanted , then yes at that point it's a no brainer for me,an xtra $1000.00 investment would be worth it.U need the market to dictate majority of sex to make it worth doing. This is strictly looking at it from a cash flow perspective.

Personally I wouldn't do it.
I prefer females.U can take a female to almost any stud.
As far as leavin "mother nature" alone,well we r in the information age.Prehistoric thinking will become just that "prehistoric".

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: Rockwell, NC
Posts: 268

I actually have a bit of experience in this field. I was doing work for a Univerisity and we were working in conjunction with a sex sorting company. The problem is the nozzle for the Flowcytometer costs an unreal amount of money. I do know how to rough sex sort. I will not guarantee 100% male or female litters. The NGA has actually recognized this for litter registration. Even the sex sorting company isn't guaranteeing it. I definately know the results in trying to freeze semen after sorting through the flowcytometer was very poor. I would only do this with fresh or chilled semen. But to answer the question, yes it can be done. But not with 100% accuracy.

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