Horse Breeding Process

The breeding process involves selection and mating horses to produce offspring with desirable traits. Here is an overview:

Selecting of breeding stock: Owners considerations are based on their stallions mares on their pedigree, athletic ability, conformation, temperament, and what the intended use of their horse is. (i.e., reining, cutting, roping barrel racing, etc.).

Breeding methods: There are two methods – live cover and artificial insemination Presently, this facility only does live cover.

Breeding season: Horses typically breed in the Spring. This facility generally takes mares in March 1 through June 30. Occasionally there is an exception and our goal is to accommodate mare owners, when possible.

Mare care: Mare care is charged on a daily basis. A lactating mare, that is a mare with foal at side/nursing is slightly higher than mare alone.

Gestation period (length): Mares generally carry unborn foal for eleven months.

Registration: Mare owners are supplied with foal registration application (i.e., American Quarter Horse Association, American Paint Horse Association).

Confirming your mare is successfully bred/pregnant: This can be confusing and varies with owners. Some owners want their mare home as soon as possible and pick their mar up as soon as cover is completed for the heat cycle. Others want the mare left and checked (teased by the stud) to see if the mare does of does not come back into heat on the next heat cycle. Typically mares come into heat for seven days and are out for fourteen days and so on. The most confirming is the mare is left and checked back to the stud to assure they are not coming back into heat and then ultra sounded by a Veterinarian. Transportation of mare to and from Veterinarian can by done by this facility.

 

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