MARE MANAGEMENT

Anoka Equine provides fertility evaluation and reproductive management to hundreds of mares per year. We are equipped with four portable ultrasound scanners and one in-hospital ultrasound scanner. Most services listed below are available both in the field as well as in our hospital facility.

• Artificial Insemination
  • Fresh, Cooled and Frozen Semen Insemination
  • Deep Horn Insemination
  • Endoscopic Insemination

• In-Hospital Breeding Packages: Includes all ultrasounds/palpations, Inseminations, Semen Evaluation, and Deslorelin/ HCG
  • Breeding – Hospital w/ Cooled $385.00 per cycle
  • Breeding – Hospital w/Frozen $485.00 per cycle
    • Also includes one post breeding infusion and one dose of Oxytocin

• Pregnancy Diagnosis
  • Ultrasound Scans (including miniatures)
  • Twin Pregnancy Reduction and Management
  • Fetal Monitoring
  • Trans-abdominal Ultrasound
  • Placentitis Treatment
  • Management of Problem Pregnancies

• Embryo Transfer / Embryo Shipping (click for more information)
  • Sometimes a busy show season or the desire to have more than one foal in a given year caused owners to look toward embryo transfers. Often an older mare, or a mare that cannot carry a pregnancy to term, is another reason for embryo transfer. The mare is bred with fresh, cooled or frozen semen, and then is monitored for the time of ovulation. Seven to eight days after ovulation the donor mare is flushed. When an embryo is retrieved, it is flown to a recipient mare at one of our select few, and well managed embryo recipient facilities. These herds are very large and use only the best reproductive mares as recipients. Once the recipient mare is checked pregnant with a fetal heartbeat, the recipient mare becomes yours for a year. This mare is shipped back to the donor mare’s owner to be foaled out.

• Sub-Fertile (“Problem”) Mare Management
  • Uterine Culture/Cytology
  • Uterine Biopsy
  • Hormone Analysis
  • Hormonal Therapy
  • Video Endoscopy
  • Uterine Infusion/Lavage
  • Assisted Insemination
  • Cervical Patency Evaluation

• Breeding Soundness Exam
  • This exam is to evaluate the productiveness of the mare's reproductive tract. The 2008 cost for this is $350 and includes the following:
    • Ultrasound Examination of Genital Tract
    • Uterine Culture and Cytology
    • Speculum Exam
    • Uterine Biopsy
    • Vulvar Seal Examination

•  Reproductive Surgery
  • Ovarian/Granulosa Cell Tumor Removal
  • Vaginal- Urine Pooling
  • Cervical Adhesions
  • Caslicks
  • Repair of Cervical Tears
  • Rectal-Vaginal Tear Reconstruction
  • Cesarean Section

For further information or prices on any of the above services please call the clinic and talk with someone in our reproduction department.