Equipment for Semen Collection and Evaluation
Artificial Vaginas and Collection
Colorado
- Outer Shell
- Insulated cone
- Latex Inner liner
- Latex Liner with cone
- Nylon gel filter or Max Flow filters
- Small clamp
- Collection bottle
- Optional: Disposable liners & clamp for Colorado, insulator warmer
Missouri
- Rubber bladder
- AV cover (leather or insulated)
- Insulated cone
- Filters
- Collection bottle
- AV fill kit
- Optional: Disposable liners, AV hanger
Common Items
- Lubricant for AV
Detergent & Brush to wash AV
- Bucket & liners: to wash stallion penis
Long gloves: collection
- Exam gloves: wash penis
Laboratory Equipment
- Thermometer: AV water temperature, waterbath temperature
Warming oven: keep collection bottles & graduated cylinders, tubes warm (37-40°C)
- Graduated cylinders or beakers (glass or plastic)- 100 ml: to measure semen volume
50 ml conical tubes: Storage& Centrifugation of semen
- Microscope (get the best you can afford!)
Heated stage
- Microscope slide warmer
Waterbath (or dry plate)
- Pipette or other liquid measuring device
Hemocytometer (& coverslips) to determine sperm concentration or densitometer (spectophotometer)
- Equitainer or other semen shipper
* Table-top centrifuge
Disposables
- Microscope slides & coverslips
Small tubes with caps
- Semen Extender: with or without antibiotics for cooling
WhirlPac bags, tubes or 50 cc plastic syringes for shipping semen (depend on system)
- Cuvettes ( and fluid required) for densitometer
Tips for pipettes
- Plastic or glass pipettes
* Semen Centrifugation media
- * Semen support media for centrifugation
* For semen that needs to be concentrated (dilute ejaculates, freezing)