Any way to artificially inseminate?

[fishmommy]

I've seen it done with farm animals. My friend, who is paralyzed, also had it done in the hospital so he could have a baby with his wife.

and I used the word gonads to be general - in mammals it's the prostate. in reptiles I have no clue what the anatomy really is

[stangs13]

Ah. I've only heard of the old probably easyer way.

[fishmommy]

I don't want to get too explicit, but feel free to google - lots of fascinating articles out there. There are a few methods and I guess there have been studies showing that the older-fashioned way gives better counts. Score one for the animals

but where the animal is uncooperative, the electro- is the way to go.

[daniel1983]

Artificial insemination is not performed with reptiles for several reasons including the need for multiple breedings in most species and the difficulty in obtaining sperm. I believe some scientists successfully artifically inseminated some female colubrids with the frozen sperm of a male colubrid during an experiement, but can't quite remember the details and specifics so I will have to look around and see if I can find the article.

[Bruce Whitehead]

From the sounds of it... it wouldn't actually bring bps down a notch, as it is expensive and not a sure thing.

Further to this, I cannot imagine how a breeder would place a price point on the *product*...

Cheaper just to buy the morph or do a breeding loan.... I assume, at least.

Just a thot,
Bruce

[Bojangles37]

and I used the word gonads to be general - in mammals it's the prostate. in reptiles I have no clue what the anatomy really is

You're using it incorrectly. I'm studying animal science and Reproductive Physiology is a huge concentration. Gonads are the sex organs (those which produce gametes), ovaries/testes. The prostate gland (as well as the ampulla, bulbourethral gland, and vesicular gland) are known as accessory sex glands. The accessory sex glands vary by species, but there is at least one in every species.


Just reading through this thread (bear in mind that I am VERY new to snake breeding, though I'd like to do it in a few years) someone stated that collection is the problem, I would absolutely agree. Someone also said that the problem is that they actually need to LOCK in order to produce follicles. Dogs and cats are induced ovulators and they can be artificially inseminated, generally there just needs to be stimulation to induce ovulation.

I've also witnessed collection of VARIOUS species, none of which were shocked... In most cases you simply allow the male to "mount" a dummy and deflect the penis into a collecting tube.

[clipclopclip]

I would be very interested in any links to studies done on this subject,a s I was thinking that as a graduate thesis it would be interesting to see if you could chemically induce follicle growth in female reptiles. Any suggestions of where to look for previous research?
Thanks!

[Quiet Tempest]

Reviving this thread out of pure curiosity. Have there been any newer studies or research on this?

[Kingofspades]

Besides difficulty collecting sperm, you would then have to package it and ship it to buyers in special conditions without it going bad, and that would just be too expensive and too much of a hassle.

Let the snakes do what evolution built them to do.

[DemmBalls]

I don't know how this would work considering we spend months of pairing these snakes to achieve our desired results. Even if you could get the sperm...I don't think the success rate would be very high for the "average" breeder. Just my thoughts.