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Check with the carriers that service the location of where your mare will be bred. If your vet is in another town make sure the carrier delivers to that area within 24 hours of stallion location – and check for delivery on Saturday, Sunday, or holidays. This is important because if there is no service over the weekend or holidays you don’t want the shipment hanging out in a warehouse for the next weekday delivery – those little sperm cells don’t like to wait. Now, if you want to plan this, get together with your vet and start counting days. Mares can be short-cycled using a hormone injection to bring them into estrus (heat). Your vet should be able to pick the day he can inseminate the mare and count backwards the number of days it will take her to come into estrus to the day he gives her the injection. Every mare is different, but it often works to plan this way.

If you have done the 16-day ultrasound after insemination and the mare is not pregnant and you want to breed her again, you can have your vet short-cycle the mare. Caution! It has been our experience that if you cannot see a 16-day pregnancy – you might try ultra-sounding again at 18 days. It is possible that the pregnancy "arrested" for a couple of days and may not be seen as expected. Short-cycling a mare that is already pregnant will terminate the pregnancy.

VERY IMPORTANT!
Have your mare ultra-sounded 12-16 days after ovulation to determine if she is pregnant. Why is this important?
Because if she’s not, you can order semen again by the shipment - no additional stallion breeding fee is due.
And, if she is pregnant you want to make sure there isn’t more than one embryo. More than one embryo can compromise the pregnancy. Your vet will know what to do if this occurs. If your mare fails to conceive after receiving semen for 2 cycles, call us.  We may be able to assist you with alternative breeding protocol.  Depending on the stallion and mare management, the national averages for equine reproduction show that it takes 1.6 cycles to get a mare in foal. In most cases, only mares with breeding problems go over two cycles.  If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.

It’s a good idea to do ultrasounds at 12-16 days, 24 days, 35 days and then sometime in the Fall to verify pregnancy.

Be sure to vaccinate your mare with Pneumabort-K or Prodigy in the 5th, 7th, & 9th months of her pregnancy to avoid abortion resulting from rhinopneumonitis.

Have your mare vaccinated with her annual inoculations 30-45 days prior to delivery of your new foal to assure sufficient IGG levels of antibodies. Your vet can also check the IGG level 12 hours after your foal’s arrival.

Call us and let us know your foal has arrived.