The Industry’s Best Fertility Sexed Semen Sexcel: Quality Counts

While working with biology has its fair share of unknowns, we strive to produce a product that you can have a high level of confidence in. The performance of our product on your dairy is of the utmost importance to us. That is why it undergoes a rigorous protocol process that includes multiple quality control steps to ensure you have a product you can count on.

Our process includes a pre-sexing quality control step where the ejaculate is confirmed to be a sample of high enough quality to run on our machines. If an ejaculate DOES NOT PASS ONE of our incoming quality parameters, it will not be allowed to proceed on the instruments. We also include a post-sexing quality control step at the end of the process to ensure the product meets our rigorous standards. Any batch that DOES NOT MEET ALL quality control criteria is destroyed.

We know you have many things to worry about it comes to when running your operation. The quality and performance of our product should not be one of them. Our goal is to produce a sexed product that you can rely on every time.

Journey of the Sperm Cell

Our quality control process includes pre-sexing to confirm high-quality ejaculates, followed by post-sexing to ensure product meets rigorous standards, with any batch not meeting all criteria destroyed.

1. The sample enters lab facilities.
2. Then the sample undergoes incoming quality control which includes measuring the concentration, motility (ability to swim), and morphology (physical appearance).
   • If it passes, the sample is prepared for the instruments.
   • If it fails, the sample is discarded.
3. Our Sexing process begins on the sample in which cutting-edge laser technology is used to destroy the unwanted female or male sperm cells, depending on what the desired sex is.
   • Female sperm cells contain about 4% more DNA than male sperm cells, and this small size difference is what our technology detects in order to identify which sperm cells to destroy and which to keep.
4. All samples from the batch are combined at the appropriate concentration.
5. Straws are filled and sealed.
6. Straws are then frozen in a cane which is unique to ABS and removes the need to physically handle individual straws post-thaw.
7. Frozen straws from each batch are thawed to undergo post-thaw quality control.
   • We take a second motility measurement, check for bacterial contamination, verify sex skew, and complete a genomic DNA verification.
   • If a batch fails any of those parameters, the entire batch is destroyed.
8. Batches that pass all of our rigorous quality parameters are inventoried and ready for use.

Understand our Quality control standards