Success with sexed semen with Professor Simon de Graaf

Head Shepherd · Dec 4, 2022 · 39m

This week on the Head Shepherd podcast we have Professor Simon de Graaf, a fellow podcaster and a world expert in sheep reproduction, sperm sexing and AI.Simon is currently a Professor of Animal Reproduction at The University of Sydney, where he says 90% of the work he does now is sheep "But my background is such that we've dealt with a lot of different species."Simons work in reproduction began during his PhD where he studied sexed semen. Mark asks for a run through of the process of sexing semen."It's all based on the fact there's a different amount of DNA in a male sperm and a female…