Paragon Veterinary Group have opened a new Ovum Pickup Centre in Northwich Cheshire. Residential facilities are available. Collections will take place fortnightly. For more information contact [email protected]
We will be heading to Dairy Tech UK next week at Stoneleigh Park. Come and visit us in the Science, Technology and Information Hall on stand I33 if you would like to find out more about Delivering the future of Cattle Breeding using In Vitro Technologies.
Aylward Gypsy Rose 5th, born in 2011, soon became a favourite on her owners’ David and Margaret Rutherford’s farm, after winning the title of Champion Calf at the East of England Festival Calf Show. Her first calving was successful, but her next calf in 2017 was born dead weighing in at a whopping 115 kg. She prolapsed and was down for 10 days before finally making a recovery. With doubts over whether she would get in calf again the Rutherfords decided to have her flushed by Peter May, with the hope of generating some offspring from her.
A short video showing Ovum pickup, with commentary.
A short video demonstrating our laboratory process.
Full lab with commentary from Jennifer Turner on Vimeo.
2 weeks ago we carried out Ovum Pick-up and IVF on a Limousin cow. We froze an incredible 14 grade 1's and 2 grade 2's from this donor.
George Borland from Ayrshire was delighted with the OPU results from his 3 donor cows, GlenvalleyBreakout Talulah, Kepcilloch Talent Summer 3 and Newabbey Shout Dellia, which yielded a total of 16 embryos between them.
George was keen to retain the genetics from these 3 donors and was not disappointed with the results! He made use of the Activf-ET voucher scheme launched at the Semex Conference in January to try out IVF for the first time. He hopes to transfer the embryos into recipients in the autumn.
Two calves, Trueman Madonna and Trueman Minogue, produced from IVP embryos were successful at Balmoral Show in May 2017.
They are featured in this report on the British Limousin Cattle Society facebook page.
" Class 2 - Heifer born or between 1st January and 31st March 2016
News from Crossfell Holsteins, Cumbria
"2 exciting heifer calves born in the last 24hrs. 1 is from a genetic recovery and the other is the first live calf born in the U.K and maybe even Europe that has been biopsied as a embryo to see what her genomics results are. Both calves are thanks to Paragon Advanced Breeding".
