Re: [RC] Embryo Transfer - Maureen A. Fager
When I was a student at Colorado State Universtiy, in the late '90s, I took
the Equine Repro Class and also the Equire Repro Practicum, and so sent some
time at the Equine Repro Lab. They do lots of ET's there, and train lot's
of vets to do this procedure also. They have many clients, worldwide, that
they do ET's and other repro services for (like store frozen semen.) At
that time, it was my understanding that multiple ET's were allowed only with
the SaddleBred registry, and the other registries that allowed ET only
allowed one. The folks who use ET are quite varied: show, and I mean "A"
and International type shows, show jumpers, really high level Dressage,
Eventing, you get the idea. These folks have the money to spend--at that
time, just the fee's for the ET was about $3000.00 which did not include the
Stud fee charged by the stallion owner. The folks who invest in ET are
folks who can affort to spend the money, the resulting foal is an
investment,--it may be worth thousands when it hits the ground. The donor
mare can contiune her show/event schedule, or, valuable mare genetics can be
presevered from a mare who may not be ablt to carry a foal full term. Not
all ET is "bad", but this ruling will affect the breed registires of course.
It was known at the time that there were folks in the AQHA who were having
more than one ET foal a year from some mares, what they were doing with them
I don't know. It does not suprise me that this ruling has happened, as the
practice has been going on for some time.
Happy Trails,
Maureen
Reno, NV
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