Pre-Breeding Examination

Happy St. Pattys Day everyone!

Today Lexi had her pre-breeding exam. This included a palpatation/ultrasound and a culture, along with some Regumate to start her on at the end of the week. She had a few cists on her uterus, but all her parts were there. :) The vet said that cists are common on mares who have been bred before, and that we just need to remember where they are so that we don't confuse them for a fetus when we start looking.

The culture results should be back within a few days, and if everything is a-OK we can start her on the Regumate. The reason for this is that we are trying to "short-cycle" her. Regumate blocks mares from going into heat, and after about two weeks on it we'll give her a shot to bring her back into her cycle, effectively "forcing" her into producing an ovarian follicle. This will allow us to monitor the follicle and pick the opimum time for insemination.

Oh dear. I've caught the foal bug already, and I've still got (hopefully, if all goes well) a year to go!! :)

Here are the total vet costs to date:

tranquilizer - dormosedan IV $48
rectal palpatation w/ ultrasound $26
ultrasound - reproduction $48
micro - endometrial culture $75
regumate solution 150ml $72
Total vet costs so far: $269 Please note this does not include things such as: feed, farrier, wormer, foal supplies, board, etc.