Cost of AI

[Jelly]

Without including the cost of the semen, how much do you set aside for AI? How much do you cap your spending at and how many attempts do you try before you give up for the year?

I am looking into breeding my mare and I think I would stop after 3 tries, £1500. Is this a reasonable amount of attempts/ money? I havent made my mind up yet but I would be very Interested to hear other thoughts on hat is and isn't reasonable.

Thanks!

 

[LynH]

I spent about £350 per attempt of chilled plus £70 each time for collection and delivery of semen. I gave up after 5 attempts. Very good semen, good follicles but just not meant to be.

 

[ribbons]

Depends entirely on why your breeding. If it's to sell the foal you have to realistically weigh up the cost of producing that foal against the price you can expect to sell it for. And in current times that can be hard to calculate. Also remembering things can go wrong, and all money invested in pregnancy and foal can disappear in the blink of an eye. If your breeding to keep as your next horse you need do decide how important it is to breed this foal yourself as opposed to buying one, and of course how much money you can afford to spend on it. So really, only you can answer that one. For some it will be £1000, for others it will be whatever it costs. That's all assuming the mare is capable of becoming pregnant, albeit with difficulty. Sorry not much help really. But one persons limit can be miles away from the next mans.

 

[louismacshoe]

I would aim to find a vet that specialises in Equine Reproduction, and then ask them for a package deal. Previously we have paid in the region of £420 inc vat for a complete AI package, which covered the years breeding season, (this included all drugs, scans, visits etc.). Then there are no surprises, and it is in the vets best interest to get a sucessful pregnancy asap. The vet I used was brilliant.

 

[Victoria25]

My mare goes to stud Monday and so far we're looking at spending just over £1100 not including semen fee. That includes EVA/strangles testing (my vet), 10 day course of regu-mate, transport there, collection fee from stallion, approx 3 weeks grass livery, vet package insemination fee (x1), in foal fee, transport home then another two future scans (my vet). Of course it'll be more should things not go as planned.

Foal is for me to keep so cost not really an issue.

 

[TBB]

I would aim to find a vet that specialises in Equine Reproduction, and then ask them for a package deal. Previously we have paid in the region of £420 inc vat for a complete AI package, which covered the years breeding season, (this included all drugs, scans, visits etc.). Then there are no surprises, and it is in the vets best interest to get a sucessful pregnancy asap. The vet I used was brilliant.

As the above does, we get a package for 250 euro per mare for AI or walk in natural covering, includes everything including heartbeat scan and 42 day scan. Very good vet and most only require one cycle but its nice to know that if a mare is difficult it won't be costing you more.