Description:
Fee: $350 with AI course; $450 alone. Enrollment Limit: 20. CE Hours: 4 lecture hours, 4 laboratory hours. Instructors: Drs. J.E. Bruemmer, J.K. Graham, P.M. McCue, and graduate students Course Description: This course is designed for anyone interested in learning the techniques involved in shipment of equine spermatozoa. In addition to lectures, hands-on laboratory sessions will provide the opportunity for registrants to actively participate. Prior experience in semen collection, evaluation, and insemination procedures or attendance at an Equine Reproductive Management and Artificial Insemination short course at Colorado State University is highly recommended as a prerequisite to this course. Topics to be covered include response of spermatozoa to cooling, preparing semen for shipment, semen shipping containers, on-the-farm applications and results of shipped semen, and management of mares for breeding with cooled transported semen. Register by December 10, 2010. For more information, visit: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/bms/ERL/erl_sc.htm.