12 articles
AQHA Six-Panel Genetic Testing
What the AQHA six-panel test covers, how each condition is inherited, and why a carrier is not automatically a horse you have to remove from your breeding program.
What Happens During a Mare's Breeding Cycle With Fresh-Cooled Semen?
A first-time breeder's walkthrough of one cooled-semen cycle — the pre-breeding exam, follicle monitoring, when semen gets ordered, ovulation induction and the 14-day check.
What Happens When You Harvest a Mare's Ovaries After Death?
How postmortem oocyte recovery and ICSI work in horses — how fast the ovaries must reach the laboratory, what the embryo production rates look like, and what it costs.
Understanding Your Mare's Breeding Cycle
How your mare's cycle works — estrus and diestrus, uterine edema, the dominant follicle, ovulation and the corpus luteum — and what your vet is looking at on the ultrasound.
Mare Management: What Breeding Records Should You Keep?
Which breeding records to keep for your mare and why — heat cycles, reproductive examinations, ovulation, breeding events, pregnancy checks, foaling and treatments — even when a repro vet is managing her.
What Is Horse Breeding Management Software?
What horse breeding management software actually does, what it records for mares and stallions, how connected records differ from a spreadsheet, and how to tell whether your breeding program needs it.
Blessed Are the Broodmares: How Old Is Too Old?
How old is too old to breed a broodmare? Fertility declines with age, but there is no universal retirement age — the best decisions rest on a mare's health, reproductive history, and a veterinary breeding soundness exam.
Older Maiden Mares: The Tight Cervix Problem
Poor cervical relaxation — the "tight cervix" — is the reproductive problem that makes many breeders wary of older maiden mares. A practical guide to why it happens, how reproductive vets treat it, and what it costs.
Oxytocin in Mares: Uses in Breeding, Uterine Clearance, Foaling and More
How oxytocin is used in mares — for breeding and uterine clearance, persistent post-breeding endometritis, embryo recovery, inducing foaling, retained placenta and milk letdown, plus why timing and dose matter.
Breeding Season Mare Prep
A practical pre-season checklist for mare owners — get mares ready, confirm stallion bookings, sort semen logistics, and set up your records before the first cycle.
Managing Frozen Semen Inventory
How to track frozen semen doses, tanks and straws — from intake and storage to allocation, shipment and keeping an accurate dose count across a breeding operation.
Difficult Mares, Biofilms, Uterine Health and BotuKiller
Thai Hua of Botupharma USA on uterine biofilms, difficult-to-breed mares, and what to do when culture and cytology don't give you an obvious answer.