French Bulldog Artificial Insemination (AI)

French Bulldog Artificial Insemination Facts

French Bulldog artificial insemination (AI) is a common practice due to the breed's unique physical characteristics, which often make natural breeding unrealistic. This procedure involves collecting semen from a male French Bulldog and then manually inserting it into the female's reproductive tract. French Bulldog artificial insemination can help ensure a successful conception and reduce the risk of complications associated with natural mating. Given the breed's popularity and the demand for healthy puppies, artificial insemination is a valuable tool for breeders to manage reproduction effectively.

Why French Bulldog Artificial Insemination Is Necessary

​We never allow Frenchies to attempt a free breed. Most people are unaware that French Bulldogs are usually not able to breed naturally. French Bulldogs are a man made breed and quite frankly they are anatomically incorrect when it comes to mating. Not only can the males “not reach” the females, often the female's anatomy is such that her vulva is set very high up on her body. Our experience has been that when we allow the males to attempt a free breed they generally become exhausted, overheated and will even vomit from the strain, all in all it just isn't worth the health or well being of an expensive champion male.
There are several advantages to doing French Bulldog artificial insemination. I have listed some of the main reasons:

• When we collect the semen we can check it under the microscope to be sure it is of good quality before inserting it into the female. Problems can be detected quickly.
• We are able to visually inspect and measure the amount of semen, we can also inspect the males reproductive parts for injury, bleeding, lesions or anything out of the ordinary.
• Manually collecting the semen keeps the spread of disease in check, there is no way for a female to contaminate the male as they never even touch.
• When performing the AI the female is manually palpated, this allows for close physical inspection of the females reproductive parts, any foul odor or discharge is dealt with immediately.
• By using AI we prevent injury to male and female both, the dogs do not actually ever come in contact with each other. Sometimes when dogs tie naturally they will bite, fight or try desperately to pull away from each other, sometimes this can cause prolapse of the female.
• We KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that the dog was bred, nothing left to chance.

Knowing When To Perform French Bulldog Insemination

Timing is crucial, knowing when to do the French Bulldog artificial Insemination is paramount. Without proper timing the French Bulldog artificial insemination is virtually useless. To determine when the timing is right we must know when the female ovulates. We can determine this by doing a progesterone test. This requires a blood sample. In our kennel we do our own blood testing. After the blood is drawn we must spin it in a centrifuge, then perform the actual test using the blood serum from our sample. The results of the test tell us the progesterone level in the female, when the progesterone reaches a certain level we know she has ovulated. After ovulation the eggs need about 48 hours to mature, that is the perfect time to AI. We artificially inseminated a female twice, once the day after ovulation and then again 2 days later, we have excellent resulting litters. We do not “hit” them all, but we have an excellent record in the high 90% range of resulting pregnancies. A wonderful asset to progesterone testing is that we can narrow the whelp date down to a 2 day window, this allows us to generally schedule our c-sections, taking the guesswork out of knowing when the time is right to take the puppies.