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Take a look at our newly updated
web-site. A few pages are still under construction, but most of it is
up and running. It now allows you to order our products through
the site and download release forms if you need it in a hurry.
Feel free to let us know about any additons that would be
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 Carrol and Christina recently traveled to Wakayama, Japan and trained our first Japanese clinic to be an ICSB Center. Hiroki and Harumi Shiba, are the owners of this center. Their family and staff are wonderful, generous people that have a beautiful facility and will certainly be an asset to our ICSB team. They worked as a cohesive group that learned quickly and contributed with great ideas and skill. We will be working closely with them as the import/export laws and AKC and JKC requirements get squared away.
We will be traveling to Japan again in August to begin training a group from Japan, Korea and Thailand called World Dog Asia. ICSB was chosen from amongst many competetors to be represented as the leading canine freezing system in the world. We are proud they will be carrying the ICSB name. We will keep you updated on the progress of these new centers. Keep your eye out for ICSB-Japan, (Tokyo) which will be training later this year. | |
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| Issue: # 4 |
June/July/August 2008 |
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Dear ICSB Friends,
The Stumptown Show, July 18-20, will be an exciting time this year. We will have our laboratory at the show. To avoid any confusion, be sure to look for the ICSB globe, our trademark. If you need directions to our booth, ask at the information desk for "ICSB", mobile laboratory. We will be located in Hall E facing the rings in the vendor area. Our phone number at the show is 971-404-9517.
We just returned from travelling to the Norcal Cluster in Gridley, CA, Montana Circuit in Missoula, MT and the Bell Vernon show in Mt. Vernon, WA. During this time, our second team travelled to Anchorage, AK for the Alaska Kennel Club shows. It was great to see everyone at the shows and we thank you all for your patronage. We enjoy getting to see the new generations produced from frozen semen and seeing how the breeders are incorporating the gene markers and testing into improving their lines. We commend you all for your concerted efforts to improve and maintain your breed lines.
Coming up after the Stumptown show are the following shows:
August 2-3
Cook Inlet
August 14-17
Olympic Kennel Club
August 21-31
Japanese Symposium/World Dog Asia
September 6-7
Eugene Kennel Club
September 18-19
Bullmastiff Specialty
September 27-28
Tri-cities Kennel Club
Please check out our website under "calendar" for a complete listing.
See you there!!!! Thank you again for all your support. Our promise to you is to provide the excellent service and reliability that has kept us going for the last 40 years.
Sincerely,
Prof. Carrol Platz Jr., Owner/Director
John Platz, Co-owner
Christina Luethe-Platz, Co-owner
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Litter of the Month!!
 
| These cuties are from a fresh, dog to dog AI that was collected and inseminated at our office, by one of our skilled technicians.
"I first would like to say that it is such a pleasure to work with everyone there! We really appreciate how kind and helpful everyone treats us at ICSB." Kandis Hudson, Full Moon Bulldogs
These adorable pictures were given to us by Kandis and Chuck Huffhines. These little Frenchies are the result of a breeding between Iten (ACE) NP17576401 and Etel Beltram (Diamond) NP17575901.
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How to use your vials efficiently. When we collect and freeze semen from your dog, we present you with a quote of the number of vials at the end of the freezing process. Most people say "great!" or "darn!" However, in the end, everyone always asks, at least once, "What does the number of vials mean?", and "How many do I need?", and "How many are used for an insemination?"
Here are some answers.
What does the number of vials mean?
1. The number of vials indicates how many inseminations you have available. So, if we froze 4 vials, there are 4 possible inseminations.
How many do I need?
2. Each vial is packaged based on the thaw evaluation and contains a selected number of live, motile, normal sperm cells. Our packaging requirements are the highest in the frozen semen industry. After 40 years of reseach, Prof. Platz has determined the optimal amount of cells needed for a successful breeding. A specific number of live, motile, normal sperm cells is used for each breed of dog. Any abnormal sperm or loss of motilitly is noted and adjustments are made at the time of packaging.
How many are used for an insemination?
3. 1 vial is used per insemination. This translates to 1 vial for a surgical insemination. We recommend 2 vials for a vaginal or trans-cervial insemination (1 per insemination-typically 2 inseminations are done for vaginal and trans-cervical breedings.)
WHY IS MY VET ASKING FOR 2 VIALS FOR A SURGICAL INSEMINATION?
ICSB can not speak for other facility success rates, but our success rate is in the 90th percentile using 1 vial of semen when surgical insemination is performed, we are monitoring her cycle with serum progesterone levels and our timing and thawing procedures are followed. The system that we have developed requires only 1 vial of semen per insemination. From 1-3cc's of thawed semen should be inserted into the uterine horns, depending on the dog breed. The bitch is producing from 1-20 eggs on average. The semen inseminated into a dog that produces the high-end on those eggs are approximately 175-250million live motile, normal sperm cells. If those can't fertilize this number of eggs,, an extra 175-250 million is not likely going to make a difference.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments.
We would like to make a quick highlight of the month to a veterinarian located in Olympia, WA:
Dr. Josh Schultz at Steamboat Animal Hospital is doing a wonderful job for dog breeders in the Olympia area. Dr. Schultz has spent some time at our facility and has proven to be a great resource to the canine reproduction community. Steam Boat Animal Hospital
Sincerely, ICSB-Oregon
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