Reproduction Fees and Mare Care

Shipped Semen

On Farm Breeding

Foaling

Embryo Vitrification

What you can Expect to Pay for Cooled Shipped Semen

You will need to have a competent equine reproduction veterinarian to check your mare and manage her heat cycles.  Unless she is a maiden mare, she will need to have a uterine culture.  You can expect to have your mare ultrasounded several times to pinpoint ovulation.  Your veterinarian may want to use hCG or GnRH to help her ovulate in a timely manner to avoid another shipment of semen.  If she has a positive uterine culture, she may need uterine infusions post breeding.  You mare can be ultrasounded for pregnancy at 14-16 days.  If your mare is pregnant, she should be checked again at 25 days to observe the fetus heartbeat.  It is important to check your mare to make sure she is not carrying twins and to make sure the embryo looks normal.  She should be checked again at 35 and 45 days.

The semen shipment fee includes the cost of collecting, evaluating, processing, and shipping the semen.  When shipping semen from a fertile stallion, most properly managed mares get in foal with the first shipment.  At Oasis Ranch, Inc. we always try to ship two doses of semen that can be used on consecutive days.  We always ship at least the industry standard dose of 1 Billion progressively motile spermatozoa per dose.

If you choose to ship semen with a disposable container, it is yours to keep.  You may send it back in case you need another shipment and, as long as it is clean, we can reuse it for your next shipment.  If you choose to use an Equitainer or Plastilite shipper, we must have your credit card number on file.  You must return the Equitainer or Plastilite immediately, with all parts intact,  via 2nd Day Air, to avoid additional daily rental charges.

Fed Ex Shipment	$285.00
Saturday Shipments	add $25.00
Airline Shipments	$450.00
Canadian Shipments	add $100.00
Ranch Pickup	$150.00 (no charge if extra semen is available)
Equitianer Deposit	$400.00 (credit card number must be on file)
Disposable Shipper	$  45.00

What you can expect to pay for Breeding On Farm

We like mares to stay until they are pregnancy checked at 25 days in foal but clients who can manage their own mares may take mares home immediately after ovulation.  Mares taken home prior to 25 days against the recommendations of Oasis Ranch, Inc. and/or the ranch veterinarian will incur a rebreed fee of $500.00 each time the mare returns to the ranch.  Mares must follow the recommend pregnancy check schedule of 14-16, 25, 35, and 45 days to maintain the live foal guarantee and rebreed privileges.  Reasonable changes  in the pregnancy check schedule will be allowed but must be approved by Oasis Ranch, Inc.

Mares in the show barn will be exercised daily, blanketed and groomed.  Mares in the Mare Barn will be bedded on shavings and exercised as time and weather allow.  Foaling mares will be bedded on straw.  Mares in Individual Outside Pens will not have bedding, but will have natural dirt.  All mares will be fed a diet of alfalfa and/or grass hay with grain as needed.  All mares will have fresh water and access to a salt block.  Stalls and pens are cleaned 6 days a week and supervised 24hours a day 7 days a week..

What you can expect to pay for Shipped Semen when using an Outside Stallion

Chute Fee                                             $500.00
Mare management per cycle            billed per procedure (approx $300.00)

Extra expenses may include courier fees if the shipment is sent via airline and shipping expenses to return the Equitainer.

What you can expect to pay for Frozen Shipped Semen

What you can expect to pay for Foaling

Foaling Fee	$400.00
IgG Test	$  50.00
R. equi Plasma	billed by veterinarian

Mares are foaled in a 12 x 24 well lighted stall unless their temperament requires more seclusion.  Mares are monitored using the Foalert system and an experienced staff.  Foaling Fee includes all basic foaling supplies: extra bedding, tail wrap, enema, navel treatment, oxytocin (if needed) and deworming your mare post foaling.  An IgG test to measure the level of antibodies of the foal will be done at 24 hours of age.  While rarely needed, any necessary veterinary intervention will be billed by the veterinarian.  Our ranch veterinarian will administer R. equi Plasma to all foals between 24 and 48 hours of age and will be billed separately.

What you can expect to pay for Embryo Transfer

Mare Management	$   300.00/cycle  (approx) will be billed per procedure
Embryo Flush	$  450.00/ cycle
Embryo Transfer	$  450.00/cycle (if using your own recipient mare)
Embryo Vitrification	$ 450.00/cycle
Embryo Storage	$  25.00/month
Embryo Shipping	included in flush cost.  courier and airline costs are additional

Minimum cost for embryo vitrification $1200.00
Minimum cost for successful embryo transfer $4750.00 - $5400.00
Minimum cost for shipped embryo $1000.00

What you can expect to pay for Frozen Semen

Three cleanout collections	$100.00 each (performed on consecutive days)
Test Freeze	$450.00 (includes first month's storage)
Additional Freezes	$350.00 each (performed every other day)
Stallion Board	$25.00 per day (includes exercise, blanketing, feed, grooming)
Semen Storage	$25.00 per month/ 100 straws

Minimum cost for Semen Freezing $750.00

We recommend the test freeze post thaw motility to be 30% or greater to continue freezing.  Collections will vary but the average stallion will produce between 6 - 12 doses per collection.   Typically 2 doses are used per heat cycle.  Depending on how many straws are desired, the stallion will probably need to stay at Oasis Ranch, Inc. for two to three weeks.  Semen will be stored in a tank filled with liquid nitrogen that is carefully inspected once a week.  Semen for export will require additional costs for stallion quarantine and required blood and semen tests.