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Location: Texas | I am usually SO BAD at picking when to bring mares to the vet... In the past, everyone always has a CL and has to sit and wait or short cycle. So this year, IDK how I got lucky.. but all three mares I brought in right in the thick of their heat cycle.
The first mare we flushed an embryo and they recovered one so I get to take her home today :). It's not for me but I'm excited she's getting to have a baby next year :) :) :).
The second one is our old JOH mare... she hadn't been cycling at all and on Monday I teased her and she didn't try and eat the horse I was teasing her with.. brought her to the vet with a 47 follicle, thats now a 50 and she's been bred twice.
The third mare is the Stoli, who I teased on the same day as the JOH and she DID try to eat the horse I teased her with... so I was like, must have missed her. Yesterday I brought her out to clean her up and she was DEFINITELY acting in heat.. ran her up to the vet and she has a 50 and they are breeding her today.
Good grief I can't handle all this happening at once! I'm used to.. "you just missed her cycle." LOL |
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Location: PA |  Lucky you!
I'm breeding my mare for the first time (her and me) this year. I've been waiting and watching her like a hawk for any sign of her being in heat..and NOTHING so far! Ugh. She hasn't been under lights or anything, just letting things happen naturally, but c'mon! I might call my vet soon, and just be like..umm..can we check her out? Haha....She's usually really easy to tell when she's in heat also...but watch, the year I WANT her to go into heat easily, she won't. Ugh.... |
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Location: The Lone Star State | Me too! I originally had an appointment to bring my mare in 3/2 and completely forgot about it so I rescheduled for the following Monday. Vet said she was ready NOW had 41 follicle and so fortunately the breeder had just collected and we got it shipped she bred next day and ovulated that night! Maybe this will take. keeping fingers crossed. |
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Location: Kansas | awesome!!! One day down the road...probably 10 years from now haha...I'll be able to start breeding! |
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Location: Missouri | Took my mare in yesterday and they said she wasn't ready so now I am giving Regimate and going to take her in in 14 days!! This is my first colt out of her and I am a bit nervous. |
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Location: The Lone Star State | I never put my mare under lights or anything just kicked out on 30 acres and she was ready to breed. My vet said he had a bunch of mares (cutting mares)all under lights that weren't even close and even with all the stuff they have been giving. Maybe this year will be the year! Of course ready to breed and actually getting pregnant are two different things!
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Location: Texas | I didn't do lights either. I didn't want a January baby so I was okay with waiting until now to start trying. |
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Location: Desert Land | Nice! You'll be having babies close together then too :)
I need to start checking my mares too this weekend. Hoping to get an earlier start this year. Last year did not go as planned and got way too late in the season, |
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Location: So. Cali. | First time breeding my mare this year. She never cycled out this winter. Checked her last Monday night after work, no interest, Tuesday night she was all for the boys. Hauled her in Wed. first thing in the morning. They bred her Saturday & Sunday, checked her Monday and she had ovulated  . I am praying everything goes this smooth and easy with her pregnancy. Suppose to go back at her 15 days to check as she had a possibility of ovulating two.
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Location: Texas | The Jet Of Honor double ovulated :/. Hopefully only one will take but we will definitely be checking for and pinching a twin if there's two.
Georgia held out and they bred her today... hoping she ovulates today/tonight.
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Location: Oklahoma | My girls are starting to hang out up on the fence across from my stallion. I will be checking my mare this weekend to see where we are.... It's a baby I'm super excited about..... the mare has a deep maternal performance family! |
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Location: PA | I think i'll give my vet a call...im impatient to know if there is anything going on in her..haha...Im going to go home and have a little talk with my mare tonight tonight.
Oh, i don't want a January baby either! I'm in PA...no thank you. I'd be ok if we missed this month and have to wait until next...I can handle a March baby here.
All these exciting (hopeful) babies next year! |
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| DARN I hate when they double ovulate ! My Packin Sixes mare also double ovulated, she was bred to FWOTR we are checking her next week. I have my fingers crossed for a pregnancy and no twins 
I have had two mares at the vet since the first of Feb. but between missing their cylce and crappy weather making it impossible to get semen they are just now getting bred. My sorrel Dash For Perks daughter is waiting on semen from Blazin Jetolena tomorrow, praying that goes as planned and my black Dash For Perks is hopefully being bred sunday via frozen semen to Slick By Design. I have two possibly three more to breed this season but haven't foaled yet.
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I`ll send you my 5 then... This is stressful and I don`t even start until next month! |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Our Bully Bullion daughter is already at Weatherford Equine for her date with Dashin Dynamo... and then I am taking another mare Hydi to Weatherford Eq. to breed to Shawne Bug Leo in a few weeks... stoked!!  |
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Location: Texas | Just an update, Our JOH who double ovulated has ONE big pregnancy :) :) :), and our Stoli mare got checked at 12 days, (oops) and they were able to find a pregnancy too!!
I am so excited about these babies!
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Congratulations!!! I get to preg check the first 2 mares of the season tomorrow evening. |
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Location: Adopt a homeless pet - www.petfinder.com! | If I have it figured correctly I'll me taking my mare in around the 25th. Breeding her to Frenchmans Fabulous, she's by Fishers Dash and her dam is by The Signature. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. We have names picked out already |
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Location: Desert Land | Good for you!! I'm hoping I have an easy breeding season, but we're already off to a weird start. Had a mare ovulate on a 35mm...wtf?? LOL. |
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Location: Texas | TheOldGrayMare - 2015-04-08 5:44 PM
Good for you!! I'm hoping I have an easy breeding season, but we're already off to a weird start. Had a mare ovulate on a 35mm...wtf?? LOL.
They bred my Reckless Dash mare on a 35 and recovered an embryo... and my other two mares went to 50s, and my Stoli mare NEVER gets that big. usually she's a 35-40 breeder! |
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Location: Adopt a homeless pet - www.petfinder.com! | casualdust07 - 2015-04-08 6:08 PM TheOldGrayMare - 2015-04-08 5:44 PM Good for you!! I'm hoping I have an easy breeding season, but we're already off to a weird start. Had a mare ovulate on a 35mm...wtf?? LOL. They bred my Reckless Dash mare on a 35 and recovered an embryo... and my other two mares went to 50s, and my Stoli mare NEVER gets that big. usually she's a 35-40 breeder!
I'm a total breeding newbie. What's the average amount a follicle grows on a daily basis? When I took my mare in for pre-breeding exam she had a 20 and a 30, and she didn't start showing any heat signs until that day, and then that lasted for about 5 days total. |
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Location: Texas | i think they can 3-5 mm a day. but sometimes mares will just hold onto a follicle and not grow it.... then regress.. or they OV it small.. or they hold onto it, sit on it, then decide to grow it. LOL. |
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Location: Adopt a homeless pet - www.petfinder.com! | casualdust07 - 2015-04-08 7:21 PM
i think they can 3-5 mm a day. but sometimes mares will just hold onto a follicle and not grow it.... then regress.. or they OV it small.. or they hold onto it, sit on it, then decide to grow it. LOL.
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| Yay ! I just confirmed my DFP daughter in foal to BJO yesterday :) so excited ! My other DFP daughter was bred to Slick By Design Monday night via frozen semen so praying she sticks and they are breeding my Streakin Six daughter to FG tomorrow !!!! On average they grow 3mm a day but I dropped my SS mare off yesterday and she had a 31 today she had a 40 lol. Some mares are crazy lol oh and my DFP has ovulated on a 30 the last two cycles. My Packin Sixes daughter absorbed a 14day old FWOTR embryo so we're waiting for her to come back in to try again. Breeding season is always so crazy
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Location: Texas | Tn_Barrelracer - 2015-04-08 11:27 PM
Yay ! I just confirmed my DFP daughter in foal to BJO yesterday : ) so excited ! My other DFP daughter was bred to Slick By Design Monday night via frozen semen so praying she sticks and they are breeding my Streakin Six daughter to FG tomorrow !!!! On average they grow 3mm a day but I dropped my SS mare off yesterday and she had a 31 today she had a 40 lol. Some mares are crazy lol oh and my DFP has ovulated on a 30 the last two cycles. My Packin Sixes daughter absorbed a 14day old FWOTR embryo so we're waiting for her to come back in to try again. Breeding season is always so crazy
woooowwwwwww I want all of those babies! |
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Location: Nebraska | yikes. So much to learn! This will be the first year I will be breeding. I'd like to breed late this month or early next. Do any of you still run your mare the first couple of months? I'd like to run her at the BRF and then be done but if it's not good for her, I won't. |
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Location: So. Cali. | My possible double ovulated mare confirmed 1 pregnancy as well! |
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| No ! Lol I do everything I can to keep their environment stress free. The stud fee is the cheap part shipping and vet fees will kill you and no way would I risk losing all that money because I ran the mare at a barrel race. |
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| The airlines lost my FG semen this morning so I'm out $300, $30 per ultrasound, $16 per day board because of this mistake. Several $100 down the drain at a snap of your fingers lol SO FRUSTRATING !!! |
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| Thank you, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to get them here !! LOL |
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Location: PA | My mare came into heat the other day and took her to the vet last night!!
She did a culture, and ultrasound to see how far along in her heat cycle she is. She was a little concerned since her cervic is still hard and closed, yet she's definitely in heat. Hopefully I say this correctly, her one dominate folicle looks relaly good she said, nice and big..didn't give me a number. She's uncertain why her cerfix isn't open but didn't seem too worried.
We're waiting for the culture to come back to see if we need to treat her for naything..but right now the plan is to breed her on her next heat cycle...next month. Im so excited and nervouse!
Both, my mare and mines first time doing this!!
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Location: The edge of no where | Tn_Barrelracer - 2015-04-09 10:06 AM The airlines lost my FG semen this morning so I'm out $300, $30 per ultrasound, $16 per day board because of this mistake. Several $100 down the drain at a snap of your fingers lol SO FRUSTRATING !!!
ARGH!!! I'd be so freaking frustrated!!! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | So ready to get my two bred. It will be late April for one and early May for the other though. |
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| I have a great pic of a Slick By Design x Dash for perks born this year. I don't know how to post pics on here. |
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| westrnridr - 2015-04-09 11:55 AM
I have a great pic of a Slick By Design x Dash for perks born this year. I don't know how to post pics on here.
Eeekkk I want to see !!! Lol email them to me and I will post them :) tayoung44@hotmail.com |
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| MS2011 - 2015-04-09 10:44 AM
Tn_Barrelracer - 2015-04-09 10:06 AM The airlines lost my FG semen this morning so I'm out $300, $30 per ultrasound, $16 per day board because of this mistake. Several $100 down the drain at a snap of your fingers lol SO FRUSTRATING !!!
ARGH!!! I'd be so freaking frustrated!!!
Oh I am ! But I want to say how GREAT the Myers are to work with. I have bred 5 times to FG and they bend over backwards to help me even when they didn't have to honor a LFG they did. They are awesome ! They didn't make me pay for a second shipment after this was lost which is wonderful. A good stallion owner is a MUST :) |
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Location: Texas | I absolutely do not ride/haul/compete on bred mares. I will occasionally hop on bareback for a 10 minute ride for fun.. but that is it. Their only job when they are pregnant is to STAY PREGNANT! |
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Location: Adopt a homeless pet - www.petfinder.com! | For those of you that send your mares to the vet to stay to be bred, do you bring them home after the first in foal confirmation (at 2 weeks-ish) and then take them back for a 45-60 day check? With my work schedule I'd rather just leave her at the vet until that after the second check, just wondering what is normal? I'll probably be treating her like glass at that point anyway lol! |
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| I leave mine until they are bred then I bring them home and take them back for their 14day check. I check them again late fall to make sure they are still in foal. |
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Location: Texas | Calangelo - 2015-04-09 2:34 PM
For those of you that send your mares to the vet to stay to be bred, do you bring them home after the first in foal confirmation (at 2 weeks-ish) and then take them back for a 45-60 day check? With my work schedule I'd rather just leave her at the vet until that after the second check, just wondering what is normal? I'll probably be treating her like glass at that point anyway lol!
My repro vet is a 2 hour drive for me. I will drop them off when I think they are coming in, pick them up after they ovulate, drive them back for day 15 check, then drive back again for a 25-30 day check. |
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| westrnridr - 2015-04-09 11:55 AM
I have a great pic of a Slick By Design x Dash for perks born this year. I don't know how to post pics on here.
Here ya go. Gorgeous baby !
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Location: Texas | That is a BEAUTIFUL baby!! Can't wait for my SBD! I have a 75% chance of black... but will prob get red :P |
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