Your Best Breeding Shed

A trip to the breeding shed is more than just a business venture; it is the beginning of dreams, or nightmares. There is much at stake. There will be (hopefully) only one foal per year from a given mating, and if something occurs that prevents a mare from becoming pregnant, a year has been lost. No one wants that “something” to be the stallion.
If a stallion is infertile or if his fertility is low, valuable time and dollars can be lost in a futile attempt to impregnate a mare. While there is still much to learn concerning stallion fertility, researchers have made great strides in recent years in understanding normal and abnormal stallion fertility, with more breakthroughs likely in the near future.

Research has done, and will continue to do, much to unlock reproductive secrets, but some basics also must be followed if a stallion is to become a successful breeder. One of the basics involves maintaining meticulous breeding records, augmented by a breeding soundness examination prior to breeding season. .

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