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we will put him in his stall for an hour or so
and then bring him back out for another session. These training sessions will rarely go for
more than 30 minutes and we may do up to 3
sessions in a day; however the vast majority of
novice stallions can be collected within the
first 1 or 2 sessions.
If we are unsuccessful after 2 or 3 days then
we may allow the stallion to mount the tease
mare once and collect semen while he mounts
the tease mare. Then the next day we will go
back to the phantom and continue trying to
stimulate him to mount the phantom.
Over the last 25 years we have trained hundreds of stallions to mount a phantom for semen collection and I have only experienced
a few that required mounting a live tease
mare for reliable semen collection. With the
proper preparation, the right team and the
right attitude nearly all stallions can be
trained to be reliably and safely collected off
of a phantom.
Some stallions will be reluctant to mount even
when stimulated to a very high degree and in
some cases we will slide the AV onto the stallion’s penis while he is positioned with his
chest against the rear of the phantom and trigger a mount. For some stallions turning them
away from the phantom and then allowing
them to quickly approach the back of the
phantom and bump with their chest will trigger a mount. The position of the mare may also be altered to trigger a mount. Some stallions respond to positioning the mare as described above but turning her head back
around so that the stallion stretches his neck
out to attempt nose to nose contact. We will
continue to try these various methods as long
as the stallion is showing positive progress
and not becoming so frustrated that he starts to
act out in a negative way against the handler
or the tease mare. You must pay attention to
the signals the stallion is sending and as soon
as we feel he is not making positive progress
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