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| have you ever had trouble getting a mare bred AI when all shes ever had was the real thing? I have 16 y/o mare that has never been AIed until this year and she was untrasounded and bred at peak time for 4 or 5 days in a row and then came back in heat. We took her back and tried again so Im just waiting now. . . im not good at being patient. I now have a lot of dough tied up so Im hoping! |
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Location: Desert Land | Usually with AI you only iseminate them once, maybe twice if the mare didn't ovulate when expected. Did you check her progesterine levels? As mares get older they can require progesterone therapy when they didn't in the past. |
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Location: Kentucky | I have a 18 year old mare that has only been bred live cover. I tried AI twice with her, but she didn't take. I'm not even going to mess around with AI with her anymore, she is going to live cover.
I haven't heard of AIing 4-5 times in a row... my vet AIs on day one, then comes back and AIs that very next morning. |
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Elite Veteran
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| idk exactly what he did. It was the stallion owner that did everything. He does all his own and others as needed. I dropped her off and when she came in he did everything himself. Told me on a thursday I think that she had come in and he did it that day and then the next morning, and then on saturday said she never came out of ovulation so he did it again for I think 2 more days. then she came back in heat 2 weeks later. |
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Location: Arizona | May need to change extenders used or insemniate with straight semen. Mare may be having adverse reaction to extender. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Ive heard older mares have a harder time AI ... we AI them with fresh semen only and NO extender! We got an old barren Rocket Wrangler daughter in foal last year that way ... she'd been tried several times and no baby ... the owners hauled her to us in OK from WY and we got her settled first time! Id try that! Good luck! |
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 The Crazy Mom
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Location: Ainsworth, NE | If she held onto a large follice for that long, there is a chance that it wasn't a good ovulation/cycle. one of our younger mares (that we get embryos from) for some reason this last cycle held a large follicle for 4 days (not normal!). So, we didn't even breed and sure enough, the follice turned hemoragic. We when she came into heat the weather did that crazy cold snap where we had rain, rain, and more rain then even snow! So we think that the crazy weather affected her. So, maybe your mare didn't have a normal ovulation?
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Elite Veteran
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| Yea that might be what happened. The weather was doing some weird stuff right before she was bred so maybe this time it was good. :) thanks for the input!! |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I would probably take the horse to a repro vet. I've never heard of someone AIing 4-5 times in a row. We always breed once, maybe twice if they really hold onto a follicle for longer than we expect.
was the stallion owner ultrasounding her to see her follicle size? I don't see how AI could be very successful if he's just judging heat by looking at her external signs. |
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