Thank
you for considering breeding your mare to Amorex. Here's some ideas
to help you get started:
DVD
Would you like to receive our free DVD showing Amorex, Silvano and
many of their foals? Please
Send the DVD
Spring-Special
Would
you like to book the Spring-Special, and send the paperwork
at a later date? You can pay the booking fee by Paypal,
and send the contract along at your convenience. We
will acknowledge
holding your
reservation for breeding at the Winter-Special price. |
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Or
you can send your check for the booking fee. $300, to Mary Baechler,
Magpie Farm, 1414 Dazet Rd. Yakima, Wa, 98908 (U.S.A.)
•Then just send an e-mail letting us know that you are reserving a breeding
on the Winter Special.
•At your convenience (but before the Spring!) print and sign two copies
of the contract
For contract please click
here
•Please include a copy of your mare's papers, and a photo (or you can e
mail me a photo at your convenience).
•If your mare is not registered, please include whatever breed info you
have on her. If she is unregistered, I will also need a description, i.e. "bay,
white snip, sock on left hind" for when I send in the breeding report.
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You can send in the contract first, and e mail or mail the
photos later.
Mare Care Prior To Breeding
We recommend that you worm your mare and do all her vaccinations
prior to breeding. Although vaccines and wormers are supposed to
be fine
for mares in early pregnancy, it just makes good sense to have things
as natural as possible for the early stages of pregnancy. Be sure
to consult with your veterinarian for worming and vaccine advice.
I
like to feed a combination of good grass hay with maybe 20% alfalfa
(when I can get it!).For mares
that are conceiving or in pregnancy, I prefer to feed as close
to free
choice
as possible.
Mare Health Form
Please include the Mare Health
Form with your breeding contract; or you can send it along before
needing your first shipment.Mare
Health Form please click here Culture
and Cytology
When you are close to breeding time, and your mare
is in heat, we do
suggest you have
a reproductive
check
and what is called a "culture
and cytology". Although we are not requiring
the Culture and Cytology, it is very helpful to get done. Please ask
your vet about it and then you and your vet can decide. Please bear in
mind,
every year a few mares turn up with uterine infections, and their owners
are always surprised! If your mare has any history of infertility or
uterine clearance problems, it might be a good idea to get a culture
and cytology
done.This culture can be done on the same heat cycle you are inseminating
on... the mare does need to be in heat to get a culture (well it is much
easier
on her).And
yes, maiden mares can have infections. Of course, the majority of mares
have good uterine health.
When To Breed
In the Spring, just let me know when you are thinking of breeding.
If you are in a northern state, the early heats (late March, early
April), will be
transitional heats--sort of the mare's body warming up but not quite
there. Those follicles are less likely to result in a conception. It
is nice to
wait til maybe mid-April to start breeding; I often wait til May so
it will be warm when the foal comes. This is much closer to the way
nature meant things to be for mares; in the wild most mustang foals
are born in April, May and June. One theriogenologist I worked for
did a study of mustang mares (just imagine how exciting that would
be!) and found that every mare that could be pregnant, was pregnant.
He also felt the natural breeding time was more in the later spring/early
summer.
When your mare is close to breeding (maybe two weeks before), please
send along the remainder of the breeding fees. Please see the Contract
for more
info. Please let me know when your mare goes into heat (and that you
want to breed on that cycle), so I plan for it.
What Days Do We Ship?
We collect and ship Mondays through Fridays; we only have Fed Ex to
ship for us, and they do not go on the weekends. If you are nearby,
we can collect
for you on the weekends. Please call by 8 pm
the night before you need a shipment. We can sometimes
ship by bus on the weekends, if you really need it and are in Washington,
Oregon or Idaho. However, we need to hear about it very early, and
Greyhound is sometimes less-than-optimal when it comes to actually
getting the Equitainer there. So we prefer to ship by Fed Ex whenever
possible...
Best regards,
Mary
p.s. all questions are good questions; feel free to call me if there
are any questions I can help with!
Amethyst
bred by Cathy Rivers
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