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Topic: cost of breeding?
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RubySlipper
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posted May 17, 2004 04:58 AM
I would like an estimate of how much vet bills run when you breed AI. I have the opertunity to breed my mare to a Keur Dutch stallion who is standing in the US for his last breeding season before returning to Holland. I am calling my vet today but was just wondering about how much this should run me.
Posts: 601 | Registered: Jun 2003
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spyro1
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posted May 17, 2004 07:16 AM
I think that different vets charge diff fees,
depending on where you are. I know that a friend of mine Ai'd her mare and it ended up costing her around 1500 dollars. She didn't take the first time, had to be flushed after each AI, the vet charged for palping each time, stallion owner charged collection fee each time. She got her pregnant the third time around. This is your worst case scenerio though.
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Posts: 2755 | From: Sunny South Florida | Registered: Aug 2003
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shell
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posted May 17, 2004 11:04 AM
It cost me $1000 each foal in vet costs. Both times, I had to have semen shipped twice. I don't have anything to tease my mares also, so they get the "Short Cycle" shot, regimate. That adds to the cost. The vet has to come out at least twice to check follicle size and determine when to have the mare owner call to have the goods shipped. It is not cheap, but well worth it if you are breeding to a good stallion and he is too far away to have your mare taken to him. Some stallion owners ship the first shipment free. That helps if your mare does not take the first time.
Both of my AI foals are better than what I expected to get. I would do it again.
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Posts: 556 | From: New Hampshire | Registered: Feb 2004
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Cyn
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posted May 17, 2004 11:15 AM
My vet charges $345 per cycle, that's if you bring your mare in for the appointments. That doesn't include the semen cost (collection, shipping ect,)
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Posts: 1021 | From: Central, Ca | Registered: Dec 2003
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RubySlipper
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posted May 17, 2004 03:56 PM
Thanks everyone, I called my vet today and they recomended a repro vet (Farfield Equine, my vets do not do repro) but the vet they recomended will not travel to my barn so I am now trying to find one who will. The vet I called said they would do it if I brought her to the clinic and left her there but that is going to cost way more, and I really want a vet who is willing to travel to check her should there be a problem.
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 06:19 PM
Well, it is complicated to go out to a barn.
First, you need to have your mare on Hormones. The most popular thing to do, according to my knowledge, is Regumate. Then, after the semen has been ordered and an exact date of delivery is confirmed, the mare is removed from the hormones. within 72 hours, the mare develops a follicle, and you can inseminate within a few weeks. THe mare will actually ovulate like 3 days before the end of the "heat" cycle.
Then, there are Estrogen tests usually done to ensure the level and palpations done once every other day to get a correct size follicle. You inseminate BEFORE ovulation. If you inseminate after ovulation, it won't catch. The sperm HAS to be in the IAJ at the same time as the Egg.
So there are lots of other things that is easier at a clinic or a proper breeding facility with AI certified people. If you can, look for a barn that does AI and see how much they charge for you to bring your horse there.
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Posts: 4337 | From: Texas | Registered: Oct 2003
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PawNHoofPrints
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posted May 17, 2004 07:27 PM
Not only be prepared for the actual cost of the breeding, but also cost associated when things go wrong---dystocia, ripping during foaling, premature foal, failure of passive transfer, septicemia, ruptured bladder, and on and on and on.
When things go wrong, it can get pricey. A cadillac treated dystocia can cost over $2,000 easily. A septic foal will cost ~$1,000 just for its first night in a referral hospital alone.
Just be prepared and able to pay for all the unexpected or don't breed.
Posts: 434 | From: Missouri | Registered: Aug 2003
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RubySlipper
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posted May 17, 2004 07:45 PM
I know that there are unexpected costs if something goes wrong, and I know that there is a lot involved in getting a mare pregnant, I am planning on short cycling the mare. I worked at breeding farm where we did this all the time, I just never saw the mare owners bills. I know that it often means the vet coming out several times and that mares often don't take and you can spend alot of money and get nothing. I just want a ball park of what the "NORMAL" vet bills should run.
I am going to be breeding Ruby to Iroko (Keur) who stands at the farm where I got Virona, His lease is up at the end of this breeding season and he will be returning to Holland so I really have to breed her this year if I want to breed to him, otherwise it will cost alot more and I will have to use frozen.
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