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Posted By: Laura

Good quality show animal semen is actually hideously expensive. I used to breed dairy goats, and had a huge tank of expensive semen. Frozen, kept in liquid nitrogen. The tank had to be kept indoors, and my partner in goat crime (who had more goats than I did) kept our two tanks in her living room, with a piece of glass over them, using them as a cocktail table.

Always made for good conversation when someone new ventured onto her farm.

"So Cynthia, what are those things?"

"Those are Laura's and my semen tanks." (said with a straight face.)

Some of the reactions were hilarious, ranging from "Ewwww, gross!" to "Cool, how many straws?"

Good goat semen can sell for anywhere from $50 to $500 per straw (good for one AI), and you can get straws from famous bucks who have been dead for more than 20 years. You want to talk collector's fever!



And AFAIK, you still can't use frozen semen for Thoroughbred race horses, which I find rather silly. ((shrug))