What do I need to do now as far as guaranteeing my semen?
I cannot say if I will still have doses by July, and I shut down shipping by July 4th. SO, you just buy it now, have it stored in your Vet's tanks for whenever you want to use it. It is not like cooled semen where you wait until the mare is ready to ovulate and then do a Chinese Fire Drill.

Frozen semen can be purchased at any time of the year. If it is “off” season, I will store the semen here at no charge until you are ready to ship it to your Vet.

The procedure is this:

• Choose your stallion
• Determine how many doses you want to purchase
• Print out the contract
• Formula is # of doses x price per dose , plus $100 preparation charge ; no deposit required on tank
• Be sure to fill out the second page delivery instructions and give a Fed X account # or credit card # for the Fed X airbill.
• Send me a check, money order, or pay thru PayPal.com the total of doses plus prep charge.
• I will return a signed copy of the contract for your records and deliver the shipment at an agreed upon time.

What is the suggested amount of doses one should purchase or does that vary by stallion?
I would think a minimum of two doses is smart. You never know what a mare might decide to do...or maybe the Vet gets impatient, breeds her too early thinking she is going to ovulate, so he can go home, only to find out the next morning that she hadn't....so if you don't have a back up dose, you are out of luck. Personally , I buy 4 doses for every mare. If you are lucky and get your mare in foal with one dose, I may buy the doses back from you, sell them, or trade you - as long as I am comfortable with where the doses have been and who has handled them.

I assume you have to fill in your sections of the contract and send a signed copy back to me, then I will send the money order for payment.  Is this the normal way of dealing with this?
 
Just fill out the # of doses you want  x price per dose. The processing fee is $100, which is added to the total of your doses amount. I do not charge a deposit for my tank.
 
When you send your payment and signed contract, then I will send you a copy for your file.

How do I get the resulting foal registered, do you send a breeding certificate or something like that?
You send me a copy of your mare's papers, declare which registry you will use, and I will send a breeding/insemination certificate along with the shipment of semen. It is your responsibility to keep up with it, have the Vet properly fill it out and send it in to your registry.

If you would like to discuss the particulars of your mare, her breeding history, etc. I would be happy to talk with you.

When you breed mare, you will need to send me copies of their papers for proper breeding certificates to be issued. You will have to indicate which registry you will use, and supply me with the proper certificates that they may require.

Do you require immediate shipment out, or will you store it until I'm ready to have it shipped?
I am happy to keep doses in my tanks until your Vet is ready to receive them.

Is there a fee for that?  
no charge.

Do you have data on first cycle conception rates for proven stallions? 
Mare owners are quite remiss in reporting results to me if the mare conceives. Seems like I only hear about the ones who DON'T ! On this farm, we bred 32 mares last year and had a 92% conception rate. All stallions used were stallions from my own frozen semen program. Most of the stallions are very fertile; there is only one that is risky with frozen. All the stallions have proven fertility , good morphology reports and are EVA negative.

Is there a time line that I need to breed the mare with the semen in order to still be able to get a breeding certificate from you?
As Long as you properly document the breeding by having your Vet sign a breeding certificate, send me a copy of the registration papers of whichever mare you choose to breed, then I will send you a breeding certificate.

If the semen is sitting for a year or two would this make a difference?
No

I have 2 mares that I may want to breed to Couleur Rubin. Do I need to fill in the mare information sheet right now or can it wait until I am ready to use the semen?
We are removing the Mare Information Sheet from the website. I request only a copy of the mare’s registration papers and a signed breeding/insemination certificate from your vet. I send the breeding/insemination certificate WITH the shipment to your Vet’s. Please be aware of that and MAKE SURE that your Vet signs it and gives it to you when your mare has been bred.

Do you want me to add the $100 processing fee to the cost of the  doses ?
Yes, the $100 is due before shipping of the semen

I have read the contract and wanted to find out if my vet breeds my mare and finds that the semen post thaw is less then 30% motility, will you replace the dose if mare does not conceive?
Your Vet will not find that the post thaw is less than 30 %. None of the semen I sell is less than 40% PPM.  I have morphology reports on all collections that I receive, so I know exactly what a certain date's semen will thaw at. If he finds less than 30%, then something has gone wrong in the thaw process or your Vet is looking at the semen under adverse circumstances; i.e.: too cold, too hot, too long thawed, too soon after thaw, etc. There are many variables to calling the post thaw motility of thawed frozen semen. I do not guarantee pregnancies, only the quality of the semen. I would not bring semen out of Germany that is less than 30% - has never happened. It is just "industry standard" that 30% is the margin.  If your Vet follows the thawing protocol that I send with the shipment, then the semen is fine, and you don’t need to freak out. A accurate post thaw motility can only be ascertained under the correct conditions and equipment. A cursory look at the semen in the field cannot be deemed accurate.

I have my own dry shipper - will that save me anything if we can use it? 
If you use your own shipper: IF it comes FULLY charged, then I will do the paperwork , loading,  consultation with your Vet, and delivery to Fed X  for $60.