Breeding Older Mares
Maureen Blaney Flietner
July 15, 2023
Steps breeders can take to obtain foals from older mares with waning fertility.
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Steps breeders can take to obtain foals from older mares with waning fertility.
Keeping donor and recipient mares in moderate body condition might improve survival rates of transferred embryos.
Have you considered using a surrogate to carry your performance mare’s foal? Learn about the process and what you can expect.
Are you thinking about breeding an older mare? Remember there are steps—some simple, some cutting-edge—breeders can take to obtain foals from mares with waning fertility.
While successful embryo transfer in donkeys is rare, a new technique created by Brazilian researchers resulted in two surrogate jennies giving birth to healthy donkey foals.
One researcher describes what we know about the receiving mare’s effect on the foal in embryo transfer scenarios.
Female mules can’t reproduce naturally. But researchers found they can make excellent surrogate dams for embryo transfer.
Is your mare’s competitive career progressing, but you’d like to get a foal from her? Dr. Ryan Ferris gives an overview of how much time a mare needs off training for assisted reproductive techniques, such as embryo transfer.
Researchers identified a 90% pregnancy rate in mares impregnated using the Wilsher embryo transfer technique and a 70% pregnancy rate in mares treated using traditional embryo transfer protocols.
Where do we go from here? Find out from Charlie Scoggins, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, who’s a fertility clinician at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
A reproductive specialist describes techniques to help clinicians overcome common challenges in embryo recovery and recipient mare management.
Study results revealed promising pregnancy rates with embryos that weren’t frozen in a laboratory but in a barn.
Infertile mare? Deceased stallion? No problem! Equine reproduction is now high-tech enough to overcome these hurdles.
The manual is based on basic science, research, and clinical experience from a commercial embryo transfer program.
The team hopes to make this process more accessible to breeders in the future.
The technology behind equine embryo transfers means exciting assisted reproduction options are on the horizon.
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