Drum
Well-Known Member
I have a mare that I have had for 5 years and tried to get in foal each year. She is now 13 years old. She has got in foal twice in that time and produced 2 stunning foals (although we tragically lost one at 4 months old). She's a very special mare and I would love to have another foal from her. However she is a nightmare to get in foal!
She's at a good equine repro vet and is scanned daily when in season. She is swabbed. She usually doesn't have fluid but if she has any she is washed out and given Oxytocin. She has good vulval conformation and isn't Caslicked. We always check to see that she has ovulated the following day. She's in good condition, not too fat, not too thin. She gets stud cubes in her feeds. She is AI'd using chilled semen from a stallion with a good reputation for getting mares pregnant, and the semen is always checked under the microscope. Her first foal was with a different stallion and we had exactly the same problems with her so I think its her and not the stallion.
I have now spent thousands in repro fees and stud fees (I only get a 50% discount the following year if she doesn't take). She has had 3 good inseminations (in terms if timing, ovulation, no fluid for 2 of them) this year and I can't remember how many last season. But I know she is not completely infertile.
Sorry that got very long! Anyway, the question was:
Does anyone use any fertility supplements/herbs etc. that they find work?
Any recomendations for studs that have a super reputation with this sort of mare? My though was to try her somewhere else next year (if she doesn't bankrupt me first!!!) and see if they have any better luck with her!
She's at a good equine repro vet and is scanned daily when in season. She is swabbed. She usually doesn't have fluid but if she has any she is washed out and given Oxytocin. She has good vulval conformation and isn't Caslicked. We always check to see that she has ovulated the following day. She's in good condition, not too fat, not too thin. She gets stud cubes in her feeds. She is AI'd using chilled semen from a stallion with a good reputation for getting mares pregnant, and the semen is always checked under the microscope. Her first foal was with a different stallion and we had exactly the same problems with her so I think its her and not the stallion.
I have now spent thousands in repro fees and stud fees (I only get a 50% discount the following year if she doesn't take). She has had 3 good inseminations (in terms if timing, ovulation, no fluid for 2 of them) this year and I can't remember how many last season. But I know she is not completely infertile.
Sorry that got very long! Anyway, the question was:
Does anyone use any fertility supplements/herbs etc. that they find work?
Any recomendations for studs that have a super reputation with this sort of mare? My though was to try her somewhere else next year (if she doesn't bankrupt me first!!!) and see if they have any better luck with her!
. One question, you've owned her five years and managed to get her in foal twice. On the failed attempts did she have a foal at foot?