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Artificial Insemination in Light Horse Breeding

University of Kentucky

Abstract

Due mainly to propaganda of a commercial nature in the years just before the World War, horse breeders became interested in "artificial impregnation" as it was then called. Many breeders bought instruments manufactured for the purpose. In some cases compound microscopes were included in the purchases. I found in many cases the breeder, being untrained, could not focus the instrument; and if he could he was unable to interpret the field.

The common belief among breeders was: That light, and especially sunlight, was injurious to the seminal fluid; that less than body temperature was dangerous; that maintained at body temperature seminal fluid could be shipped long distances without injury.