The perils of order-by-mail horse semen: “VD for horses crosses an ocean, lands in Midwest.”
Since mid-December, when agriculture officials confirmed three cases at a farm in central Kentucky, 12 stallions and 83 mares across 28 states have contracted the condition…The outbreak not only speaks to the unstoppable nature of foreign invaders in an interwoven world, but it owes much to today’s methods of breeding quarter horses. Breeders increasingly rely on artificial insemination, using cross-country shipments of chilled semen, over “live breeding” the old-fashioned way.
Lessons here: buy American, stick with tradional horse sex. You can’t trust them there foreigners or that “science” stuff.
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