German Shepherd dog

Someone in Germany told it was illegal to send that to the states, but don't necessarily take my word on that.

My understanding is you cannot get pink papers on a litter concieved through AI. I personally wouldn't do it anyway, expensive, high risk, and who really knows exactly whose "boys" you're getting! You could DNA the pups after they are born, but thats kind of closing the gate after the horse is out.

Is it a working or show line dog? Many nice males in Ohio.

Frozen semen is quite successful with horses, I have not heard nor had any experience with frozen dog semen. Although I would imagine it works just as well, my vet and I were planning to do it with my male however I lost him prior to having the opportunity. You definitely would want to know the people you are dealing with to be sure you get the semen for the dog you want your female bred to. With the airline tickets being on sale right now your best bet would be take your female to the male. Your female would be traveling as luggage rather than cargo much cheaper way to go. But like mentioned previously there are a lot of really great males here in the US unless you are looking for specific bloodlines.

Good Luck

I don't know aobut bringing semen in from Europe, or what their regulations are there, but over here, the AKC will not register the litter unless the dog was collected by an approved licensed repo center or licensed Vet.  The sire is photgraphed and DNA'ed if not already on file, and if already DNA'ed, you must bring the DNA cert at the time the male is collected, and the dog also must be permenantly identified. The semen must be inseminated by a licensed Repo center or A Vet who will verify the female the semen is inseminated into.

Most Repo centers/Vets won't tell you what their success rate is, as success depends on the quality of the semen, the fertility and age of the bitch, the timing of the insemination, whether it was a vaginal or sugrical insemination, and the care and condition of the bitch etc. So much is not under the control of the Repo center/Vet that did the coollection that did the collection if the semen is shipped, so they can't be blamed for failure once the semen leaves them.

They always do a test freeze and thaw to determine how many million sperm will survive the thaw (per straw) so they can determine how many straws to send to provide for a breeding. I recently had my 11 1/2 year old Ulk Arlett son collected and he had 1.4 Billion per ecacualte, with 60% recovery rate after freezing, so one collection can give several possible breedings ( Most Vets want 200-300 milllion live sperm concentration per insemination)

Frozen semen is BIG business in Horses in Europe and it is used all the time with them, but I don't know the rules in Danemark for dogs. I know the SV won't allow it, but maybe semen from Holland sent to a USA Vet, with DNA on file in Danemark...maybe?

I have 'pup-cicles' stored on most of my males, even from Eros who was born in 1984 and died in 1996. I may want to line breed back on him...who knows. I don't sell my dog's semen, but I have it for my own bitches. I'm kicking myself as I have a great Vom Haus Antverpa (V-SchH3, KKKL1 solid black) that got a prostate infection and is shooting blanks,,, maybe for good, and I didn't freeze him. The kennel was disbanded years ago so the lines are hard to find.Thank goodness I have his son and daughers....Jackie Athon

Hi Steve1. Who is the dog?  A friend of mine had a litter of 12 from frozen Semen by Gismo last October.... Sorry, I hit send twice on my post above. Didn't mean to repeat myself...Jackie

How Cool, I didin't know Rinus had Zasko stored when he was here! I think we are going to see more people in Europe bring their dogs here and get them collected as they can make bloodlines available to us more easily that way, and get stud fees they might otherwise not get...good idea...Jackie

We tried this a few years ago.  The cost was immense.

In addition to stud fee it was nearly $800 to ship the liquid nitrogen dewar full of semen to the US, and another couple hundred to ship the empty dewar back to Europe.  Nearly $1000 for progesterone and LH testing, and having to board the bitch at the vet clinic for a week so blood draws could be done daily.  $300 for the surgical AI implantation.  And no puppies.

For what we spent on that, we probably could have taken a week off work, hopped on a plane with the dog, and flown with her to Europe to do the breeding naturally. 

And probably with better results as frozen AI breedings have a much lower success rate than natural breedings, due to the very short timeframe the semen will live after thawing.

I don't have time to read the rest, so sorry if I repeat.

As far as frozen from Germany...I hope money is not an option.  Someone from South Africa inquired about frozen from my stud, my specialist said it would cost in the neighborhood of $800 USD just for shipping with no guarantees it would not get held up somewhere (the tank only keeps the straws frozen for 10 or 11 days, then on his end it would cost him around the same just to surgically implant it into his female.   Plus then the stud fee.

Frozen breeding is risky if the female's owner is not using a specialist well experineced in handling frozen semen.  It is a delicate process and the females levels must be tested frequently from almost the beginning of her heat because pinpointing the exact point of ovulation is a must since the thawed sperm has reduced motility and does not live as long as the fresh.  If not done properly the failure rate is high.

My specialist claims to have a very good success rate, they've said the majority of bitches that did not concieve proved later to be sterile. 

Regards,

Melanie

Hi blueshep

The Frozen Sperm of ZASKO is already stored in the USA. Look at the website, www.daelenberghutte.be

Zasko was bred in Germany

Steve

I am in the processing of sending semen on a male I own (non-GSD) to someone who is doing a breeding in Sweden.  Shipping from the US to Sweden (and the return shipping of tank) is going to cost that breeder around 1200.00 USD.  Of course, that is more of a bargain for them versus the buyer being in the US as you are asking since the Euro is so much stronger than the dollar.