Embryo transfer program seeks mares

The University of California Davis is seeking salubrious immature mares to bring together its educational activity herd, where they volition serve equally embryo recipients.

The university’s William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital is bespeak for donations of suitable mares, who volition live on cared for past times the Equine Reproduction Service at the infirmary as well as the Center for Equine Health equally they serve equally embryo recipients for infirmary clients alongside mares participating inwards the embryo transfer program.

UC Davis is committed to giving the donated horses a character domicile during their fourth dimension inwards the program.

If a mare successfully receives an embryo, she volition as well as thence live on sold to the customer whose mare provided the embryo.

That customer as well as thence volition aid for the recipient mare until the foal is born as well as is weaned. Following that, the customer has the selection of bringing the recipient mare dorsum to UC Davis to live on sold dorsum to the recipient herd.

To live on accepted into the recipient herd, mares must come across the next criteria:

• Be at to the lowest degree fifteen hands as well as (ideally) 1100 pounds
• Be betwixt iii as well as 10 years of age
• Be (preferably) warmbloods, standardbreds, drafts, quarter horses or thoroughbreds
• Be “broodmare sound” (sound inwards a pasture situation, non necessarily audio plenty to ride or perform)
• Be halter broken
• Be costless of whatever history of reproductive problems or sub fertility
• Can live on a initiatory or foaled mare

“We deeply appreciate everyone’s generosity inwards helping us construct our recipient herd,” said Dr Bruce Christensen, master copy of the Equine Reproduction Service at the hospital.

“These mares volition play a critical piece of employment equally nosotros expand our educatee educational activity as well as resident grooming programs, as well as fulfill our educational activity as well as service visions.”

 

To hash out a donation, contact Bruce Christensen at christensen@ucdavis.edu or telephone telephone the Large Animal Clinic at (530) 752-0290.

Learn to a greater extent than here, as well as follow the VMTH Large Animal Clinic’s Facebook page.

 

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