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Location: In a happy place | missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship
I hope you "have a baby on the way." These people really know what they are doing and I respect you for coming on here and asking instead of asking the people that are doing so much to try to get lots of mares settled. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | sorrel horse ranch - 2014-06-01 8:04 AM missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship I hope you "have a baby on the way." These people really know what they are doing and I respect you for coming on here and asking instead of asking the people that are doing so much to try to get lots of mares settled.
Edited to add that it happens to be Missroselee herself that is down there getting bred and I'm not used to that mare NOT being in my barn every day. I've owned her 13 years now......but I am proud to say that I have been doing better with it then I thought, probably because I know where she is and I know there is no reason to worry :)
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Location: USA | I hope you've got a baby coming! I'm also new to this breeding thing and I've had a heck of a time this year getting my mare pregnant (apparently everyone around here has bc our weather has been cray cray). The first go round, my mare had 2 follicles on the left, and one on the right. Apparently one on the left was big, around 50 or so. The vets thought she was going to be ovulating soon. She ended up staying at the vet for about 9 days and had been AI'd 6 different times because she would never release the follicles and ovulate. She finally did and went back for a follow up and no baby. Her uterus looked like a wagon wheel which meant she had some edema in it and is a sign she's in heat and will ovulate soon. She also had one big follicle on the left that was squishy (also a sign of ovulating). They gave her des to try to get her to ovulate and AI'd her twice. 3 days later, she still hadn't ovulated. I decided to bring her to the breeder where we teased her. The first time we teased her, she was just like "who is this hornball and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing here." We waited a bit and went and looked at all the beautiful babies on the ground and then decided to try to tease her again bc she started showing signs of being in heat. She finally responded, however, the breeder wanted to tease her in front of another stud bc the original one apparently would hump a goat. The second stud will ignore the mare if they aren't in heat and we weren't too sure if she was or not bc her signs weren't really clear. Second stud definitely was interested. I helped collect the stud I wanted to breed her to (which is an entirely new experience) and we AI'd her. She said her cervix was open and she thinks she is in the process of ovulating based on a few other things she noticed. She was going to AI her again today and palpate Monday so everyone keep your fingers crossed!
I defintely want to check at 14 days and again at 28 days just to make sure. My vet isn't but 15 minutes away (luckily) and I don't want to wait to see if she comes in heat, I want to see the proof on the little black and white screen!
This AI experience has been really interesting and I've learned a lot, but it's been a pain at the same time with all the hauling to the vet to have them checked, ordering semen, mare not ovulating, ordering more semen . . . and it goes on and on. However, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Good luck with your mare and I hope everything works out for ya. Sorry this post is so dang long!!
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Location: Where I am happiest | HorseMommyFiveO - 2014-05-31 10:35 PM missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship I just did exactly that. She is still open after the second breeding. :- ( I'll re breed again next week when she comes back in, but then I'm taking her home (3 hours ). If she still doesn't take, I'll cut my losses and buy a colt next year. I'm sure yours will be easier! Good luck! I'm not sure I'll do the 28 day check. 14 days for sure, but I'll likely know she's lost the pregnancy if she comes back in
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | missroselee - 2014-06-01 8:24 AM sorrel horse ranch - 2014-06-01 8:04 AM missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship I hope you "have a baby on the way." These people really know what they are doing and I respect you for coming on here and asking instead of asking the people that are doing so much to try to get lots of mares settled.
Edited to add that it happens to be Missroselee herself that is down there getting bred and I'm not used to that mare NOT being in my barn every day. I've owned her 13 years now......but I am proud to say that I have been doing better with it then I thought, probably because I know where she is and I know there is no reason to worry :)
That is awesome you can take her right to the stallion's ranch for breeding. She'll be in good hands. There's no middle man and the stallion owner wants nothing more than to see good healthy babies hit the ground. Good job Missroselee.  |
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Location: CTX | I am also new to the breeding thing. My friend has a couple bred to the same stud and so she did the trailering for me. After my mare was checked at 14 days I brought her home. And since it is my first time I took her in at 34 days to be checked.... mainly because the vet is only 30 mins away, the check is not that bad ($25) and I am very curious (and also paranoid....  ) about the whole thing..... Also I took my other mare in for a health check, so was gonna go that way anyway.
Just to see that little heartbeat is so exciting!
Eta, hope you will have a beautiful bouncing foal running around next year!
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Location: Here | sorrel horse ranch - 2014-06-01 7:04 AM missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship I hope you "have a baby on the way." These people really know what they are doing and I respect you for coming on here and asking instead of asking the people that are doing so much to try to get lots of mares settled.
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Location: God's country | My mare is at Granada Farms in Texas and this is what they have told me. We breed the mare, check her at 14 days for pregnancy and then (if I wanted to) leave her another 14 days and they would ultrasound and verify a heartbeat. No baby thus far, but keeping fingers crossed! Good luck with yours. I have another mare that we are trying to get bred to Lions Share of Fame also. Exciting, nerve-wracking stuff! |
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| ThreeCorners - 2014-06-01 10:08 AM
HorseMommyFiveO - 2014-05-31 10:35 PM missroselee - 2014-05-31 10:29 PM Before I ever dropped her off Bryel mentioned keeping her until the 28 day ultrasound to be sure since she was 7 hours away. I opted to take my mare to her since they have a great AI program rather then ship I just did exactly that. She is still open after the second breeding. :- ( I'll re breed again next week when she comes back in, but then I'm taking her home (3 hours ). If she still doesn't take, I'll cut my losses and buy a colt next year. I'm sure yours will be easier! Good luck! I'm not sure I'll do the 28 day check. 14 days for sure, but I'll likely know she's lost the pregnancy if she comes back in
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | missroselee - 2014-05-31 8:48 AM Because I'm dumb. In simple steps, what is the process starting with prepping the mare? I don't need to know about collecting from the stallion, just the process with the mare. Once they have been AI'ed, and checked at 14 days, if they check in foal, do you check again at 28 days or ????
Everyone does it different. We check at 14-15 days and unless the embryos are insured we don't check again until 45 days. After 45 days they are considered "safe in foal" so we don't bother them again after that. If they lose a foal after that they won't cycle again this season anyway. |
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