Protocols for Mare Management with Cooled-Shipped or Frozen Semen – methods to time breeding of mares both with and without use of pharmacological manipulation. By Jos Mottershead Mare management with cooled-shipped or frozen semen can often seem daunting but is a key element for success or failure. One can use or forgo pharmacological manipulation, and we discuss here… Read More: Mare Management with Cooled-Shipped or Frozen Semen »
One-on-one Horse Breeding Training While we are renowned for offering short courses on the subject of horse breeding worldwide, we not infrequently encounter people either at the courses or through our website who are in need of more specific one-on-one horse breeding training. Perhaps they do not own stallions but want to learn more about the reproductive aspects… Read More: Individual Tuition »
The Semen Looked Bad – Or Is It? Maybe not as bad as you think! A review of what constitutes a cooled semen dose, looking at some newer research and older dogma. By Jos Mottershead and Kathy St. Martin During the course of the breeding season – especially on the EquineRepro Facebook Group that we manage – we… Read More: You’re Ready to Breed Your Mare – But is the… »
Does My Mare Need RegumateTM? – A perennial question for some is “Does My Mare Need Regumate?” Here we discuss some possible instances of need as well as the overuse of the drug By Jos Mottershead The Simple Answer: Does My Mare Need Regumate? Well, the short answer is that if you don’t know, she probably doesn’t need… Read More: Does My Mare Need Regumate? »
Embryology – Different Stages of the Early Equine Pregnancy – Equine embryology – early pregnancy images. A pictorial showing embryonic developmental images through to the fetal stage of 50 days. All day numbers given here are the number of days post-ovulation on the conceiving cycle. The 32 to 64 cell stage of a developing embryo is the morula.… Read More: Early Equine Embryology »
Steps for Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US – A step-by-step guide to the USDA and CFIA requirements for Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US. By Jos Mottershead and Kathy St. Martin It should be noted that while this article about the regulatory aspects of shipping horse semen to Canada from the US is… Read More: Shipping Horse Semen to Canada from the US »
Early Embryonic Death – Noted reproductive veterinarian Dr. Jon Pycock explores early embryonic death in the mare and some possible resolutions to the problem. By Jonathan F Pycock, BVetMed, PhD, DESM, MRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Equine Reproduction For all horse breeders, it is important to realize that not every mare will give birth to a live foal. Failure… Read More: Early Embryonic Death (EED) – what it is and why… »
Education At Equine-Reproduction.com, LLC we are all about education. In fact, the domain came into being over 20 years ago because of some reproduction articles that were being hosted on one of our personal pages and which were getting so many “hits” that the host told us we needed to get our own domain and stop using the… Read More: Education »
Managing “Silent Heat” in the Mare – Silent heat (estrus) in the mare can be annoying at best and disastrous to a breeding program at worst. This article offers some useful tips. By Jos Mottershead There are various reasons for silent heat in the mare – some not understood completely, as we haven’t got inside the heads of… Read More: Silent Heat in the Mare – Causes and Resolutions »
Retained Fetal Membranes in the Mare – Post foaling retention of placenta and membranes. Noted reproductive vet Dr. Jon Pycock discusses at what point this becomes a problem, and how to treat it. By Dr. Jonathan F Pycock, B.Vet.Med., Ph.D., D.E.S.M., M.R.C.V.S. Equine Reproductive Services, Messenger Farm, Ryton, Yorkshire The mare illustrated here is presented to you four… Read More: Dealing with Retained Fetal Membranes (Placenta) »
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