Pedigree Query

Im well aware that empty mares happen, but these two mares happened to come back at the same time the rumor has been spinning throughout the Kentucky farms. I think there's something to be said about a kernel of truth in most rumors. As I said in my original post, if it wasn't true, my apologies, b...

Hmm, the whispers are strong and I know of two mares with no fertility problems who didn't catch and were let out of their contract with little effort. Guess we'll find out soon enough if they drastically limit his book or pension. Well I'm the broodmare manager at Overbrook so I do know what is go...

The whole reason for making this topic is i've been hearing whispers for a few weeks which are now loud grumblings that Storm Cat is not impregnating his mares this year. I heard over a dozen have been left empty on his cover the last few weeks including a family member's who is now being let out o...

First, Regumate can do a whole lot to get your mare in foal. Five days after ovulation the mares corpus luteum (CL) forms and starts to produce progesterone. If your mare is not producing enough progesterone (above 5) that leaves nine days for that pregnancy to terminate, assuming you will check her...

My thoroughbred mare had triplets the first year we bred her. We had bred her several times that year and finally put her on regumate after breeding trip number four and then she came up with triplets. We got lucky though, we pinched two and the third one did just fine, a very nice Victory Gallop fi...

We have a freindwho recently had a mare foal that is not producing enough milk for her foal. Gave her one shot of oxytocin, feeding free choice salt and hay and a quality broodmare ration. Any ideas how to get her to increase? Oxytocin stimulates milk let down (in addition to uterine contractions)....

Oxytocin also stimulates milk production. Domperidone works the best. The idiots at Overbrook gave Domperidone a week or two before the mare was actually due. By the time she would have her foal, all of the colostrum was gone. Actually us idiots at Overbrook give Domperidone to a mare when she is p...