Our medical-grade horse products are collected and custom packaged to your specifications.
Horse Blood and Serum Products
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- Packaging, volume, and dispensing-port configuration customized to your pouring equipment
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Applications for Horse Blood and Serum
Horse blood is what labs turn to when a medium needs to be richer than routine sheep blood agar. It supports fastidious organisms with demanding nutritional needs, and it is widely used to make chocolate agar, where gently heating the blood releases the X and V growth factors that organisms like Haemophilus and Neisseria require. Horse blood agar is a standard choice in many reference and European protocols for exactly these species.
Our medical-grade horse products are collected and custom packaged to your specifications. Horse serum has its own long-standing place in the lab, used to enrich media and supplement culture systems. Across diagnostics, research, and media production worldwide, our horse blood and serum give labs a dependable, nutritionally generous option backed by the same traceability we hold across the ranch.
Horse Blood Agar and Fastidious Organisms
The value of horse blood is its richness. Plenty of clinically important organisms grow poorly, or not at all, on standard media, and horse-based formulations give them the nutrients they need. Combined with supplements like NAD, or prepared as chocolate agar, horse blood media recover organisms that more selective plates can miss. It is a complement to sheep blood agar, not a replacement, since each supports different diagnostic goals.
For labs standardizing on horse blood, the consistency of the source material matters as much as the formulation. Our 85 draft horses are lifelong donors, raised under the same monitored, antibiotic-free care as the rest of our herd, so recovery stays stable and results stay comparable from one batch of media to the next.
Healthy Donors and 100% Traceability
We collect aseptically from healthy donor horses on our 9,000-acre central Montana ranch. They are exclusively blood donors, raised antibiotic-free with no growth hormones, and any animal treated for a health reason is quarantined for 30 days before returning to the donor line. That is why our horse products are 100% traceable and 100% pure.
We collect within 8 to 48 hours of shipment so your product arrives fresh, and documentation is available to support clinical, pharmaceutical, and research quality requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions About Horse Blood and Serum
Horse blood is used to make richer culture media for fastidious organisms that grow poorly on standard plates. It is a common base for chocolate agar and for horse blood agar that recovers demanding species such as Haemophilus and Neisseria. Horse serum is used separately to enrich media and supplement culture systems.
Horse blood is more nutritionally generous, which suits fastidious organisms, while sheep blood is preferred for clean hemolysis and routine identification. They do different jobs, so many labs use both rather than treating one as a substitute for the other.
Chocolate agar is made by gently heating blood until it browns, which lyses the red cells and releases the X factor (hemin) and V factor (NAD) that organisms like Haemophilus need. Horse blood supports strong recovery of these fastidious species, which is why it is a common choice.
We supply medical-grade horse blood as defibrinated whole blood, anticoagulated blood, red blood cells, plasma, and serum. Packaging, volume, and dispensing-port configuration are customized to your pouring equipment.
Yes. We collect and process specifically to order, so anticoagulant, cell concentration, volume, and packaging can all be set to your specifications. If you need something not in our catalog, we can build a custom product.
We collect aseptically from our draft horses, who are lifelong donors raised under monitored, antibiotic-free care. The blood is then defibrinated, anticoagulated, or separated into components depending on your product, and collected within 8 to 48 hours of shipment to keep it fresh.
Our horses are exclusively blood donors, raised antibiotic-free with no growth hormones, with a 30-day quarantine for any animal treated for health reasons. Our horse products are 100% traceable and 100% pure, with documentation available for clinical, pharmaceutical, and research requirements.
We have shipped to customers worldwide since 1988, using appropriate cold-chain handling to protect product integrity. Coverage and lead times for your country are best confirmed with us directly when you request a quote.
