I hear various reports from vets about the success rate of Surgical AI procedures (frozen or chilled). A couple of the reproductive vets I have spoken to feel that Surgical AI has a greater chance of success compared to its counterpart of the standard vaginal AI method. Considering this is a more costly and risky method I would like to get some feedback from those who have tried it.
I'm curious to know anyone on this board's results attempting a Surgical AI have been? Any difference with frozen or chilled?
I haven't attempted this yet, but my vet and I have discussed it (her practice is 95% breeding). She says that on german shepherds for some reason, chilled seems to take better than frozen. Surgical ai's to have very good success rates. Everything is in the timing. She says do it 3-5 days after the lh surge.
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We just did a successful surgical AI using fresh semen on our Leerburg female.
The total cost was just under $500 at the local vet college. We had a very good sized litter.
The recovery time on the bitch was very good.
I would do this again in the future.
The reason for the surgical verses regular AI was due the males low sperm count. This was his last chance to breed and we wanted to make sure it took.
We did a frozen surgical implant (imported semen) almost 2 years ago (OFA's due in 2 weeks...eeeek!). Nine big healthy pups in a 5.5yr old bitch. It wasn't cheap, we did progesterone testing every other day, and then also checked for the LH spike.
The vet I use ALWAYS does surgical implant with frozen b/c of the decreased life of the sperm (12hrs from when thawed). Fresh AI, I believe they will do "normal" AI or trans-cervical.
I believe that with frozen surgical, if timing is correct, there's an 80% success rate, though I'm not sure why that number sits in my head.
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I am leaning towards frozen surgical this summer. The Dr. I am working with started 25 years ago and built his name doing AI's for the local zoo here which has a world renowned reproduction program thanks to this guy. He claims 95% success rate using "pellet" form not straws. He only does surgical AI's on dogs now and not the traditional method. Derek
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My Cane Corso Pile as a result of a fresh collection surgical AI. Daily progesterone test were performed and procedure was performed day 5 after ovulation was determined. Those that had no success, was your dogs timed by taking daily progesterone test? The success rates are quite high using this method if everything is done correctly.
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