Invitro Fertilization - The industry experts  
Invitro fertilization (IVF) is the technology of separating and removing immature oocytes (eggs) from a female, placing them in a Petri dish of specific media, and introducing sperm cells. The goal is to achieve fertilization of the oocyte followed by the incubation of the newly fertilized embryo to a stage where it is viable enough to transfer into the uterus of a surrogate mother cow.

 

 

 

 

Trans Ova Genetics offers extensive opportunities using IVF for breeders to obtain more offspring from traditional donors, pregnant donors and virgin heifers. hey can sex-sort thawed semen, allowing breeders to use semen from the sire of their choice, to fertilize their donors’ IVF eggs. This greatly increases (up to 90 percent) the chances for a calf of desired gender.

Though IVF technology has often been thought of as a “last resort” for unfertile cows, the best results are achieved with healthy, fertile donor cows. Combined with Trans Ova Genetics’ unique abilities to use gender-sorted semen, extend the use of rare and/or expensive semen, and the options of transferring fresh or freezing IVF embryos, breeders have many more opportunities to use this technology on their most important donor females. IVF also may work well on cows that produce many “unfertiles” with conventional ET.