The reproduction session at the annual AAEP meeting in Orlando, Fla., was something of an A to Z seminar with an international flavor. It started with speakers from North America presenting discussions on endometrial echotexture (ultrasound results) and using computer analysis to determine when a mare will ovulate, or has ovulated, and along the way included a French researcher describing how to turn an unbred female that has not given birth into a nurse mare capable of producing enough milk to sustain a foal until weaning time.

The moderator for the session was Dickson Varner, DVM, Dipl. ACT, a reproductive specialist at Texas A&M University