You have a choice. If we transfer all embryos into recipient mares at the time of the flush, you may have multiple foals the following year. However, it increases your chances of having at least one foal in case one of the embryos doesn't make it. If you don't want the chance of multiple foals, then you may want to consider flushing at 6 days, freezing the embryos, placing one in a recipient and keep the remainder frozen.

For women who have regular cycles, ovulating during your period is highly unlikely. Some women have very irregular cycles, maybe coming once every 3 months or 2-3 times in one month, and these women can have the odd occurrence of ovulating during a period or what is believed to be a period. Still, the chance of ovulating during a period is unlikely. But because sperm can live in the body for 3-5 days, pregnancy could occur from intercourse that takes place during a period.

The answer to this is determined by how many days are in your cycle. For example, if you have a 21 day cycle ( from the beginning of one period to the beginning of another) and you bleed for 7 days, then yes, you could ovulate right after your period. This is because we know ovulation can occur 12-16 days before your next period begins, and this would put you ovulating at days 6-10 of your cycle.

A woman cannot ovulate more than once during each cycle, therefore she cannot get pregnant more than once during a cycle. Multiple ovulation can occur and is when two or more eggs are released in a single cycle. Both eggs are released during one 24 hour period and are responsible for the birth of fraternal twins.

Since a woman releases an egg 12-16 days before her expected period, it is possible for women to get pregnant without having periods. Women who are not menstruating due to a certain condition (i.e.…low body weight, breastfeeding, perimenopause) risk the chance of ovulating at any point. For those who want to conceive, the lack of periods could make it more difficult to know the timing of ovulation if you are not charting temperature and cervical fluid changes.

GenSelect Fully Integrated System Home Kits include a Basal Body Temperature thermometer, BBT charts, Ovulation Predictors, and easy directions for tracking and predicting your ovulation date.

Most women ovulate once a cycle about fourteen days before the next period is due (e.g., day 13-15 of a 28 day cycle). Most women will not know naturally when they ovulate. There are several methods women can use to monitor ovulation, usually used to check fertility ? temperature, calendar, mucus patterns, etc. It takes a thermometer to monitor ovulation and it may take 6-12 months before you notice a regular pattern.

We can't directly transfer an embryo into the mare we just flushed. There usually is a small amount of residual fluid in the uterus from flushing the embryo. This doesn't create the best environment for the embryo to survive in. You would want to freeze the embryos, recycle your mare and transfer them when she and the recipient are ready.

If DHT-related hair loss is not treated appropriately, eventually the miniaturized hair follicles are permanently destroyed. This process is called atrophy and the atrophied hair follicles are replaced by scar tissue. A scalp area with hair follicle atrophy looks bare and shiny and will not respond to any product or medication.

Unfortunately after the hair follicle has atrophied, it is permanently lost. However, if Revivogen? is used at any point during the hair miniaturization process, the hair follicle can be protected from DHT assault.

This really depends on what you would like to do! She can stay until she is covered and then go home for 2 weeks before her 14 day pregnancy scan and then travel back for the 2 remaining scans, she can stay all the way through-until she has finished all her scans, or you can travel her in for each scan and take her home again, meaning she never has to stay away from home!

Normal" gestation is 335 to 345 days. As an approximation, we use 11 months -so if your mare was bred on February 1st, the approximate foaling date will be January 1st. Keep in mind that there is a great degree of variability in the length of gestation with some mares carrying the foal for 13 months! Foals can also be born early but foals carried less than 300 days rarely survive.

During the first 8 months of pregnancy there is a moderate increase nutritional demand on the mare so you should feed her as you did prior to her becoming pregnant. One of the biggest mistakes made is to overfeed during the early stages of pregnancy. The majority of the fetal growth occurs during the last 3 months of pregnancy so during this time you should increase the mare's feed ration by 15% and add (i.e. 2 to 6 lbs.) of a multi-grain, vitamin and mineral mix.

No! The day of ovulation can vary among women as well as within each individual woman. However, once a woman ovulates, the time between ovulation and her menstruation is very consistent, almost always between 12 and 16 days. Within most individual women, this length of time generally doesn't change by more than a day or two. In other words, if there is going to be variation in the cycle, it is the first preovulatory phase that may vary.

No. Ovulation is the release of an egg from the ovaries to the fallopian tubes. If an egg is not released then it cannot be fertilized by sperm and then is unable to implant in the uterus (because there is no fertilized egg to implant). So, if a woman is not ovulating then she is unable to get pregnant.

Ovulation usually resumes when hCG levels decrease below 100 IU/l. Therefore it is not unusual to diagnose ovulation when an ectopic pregnancy is in state of resolution following expectant or medical treatment.

Ovulation can take place even if you do not notice the “stretchy egg-white” fluid that we assume accompanies ovulation. Every woman can experience her own type of cervical fluid, and not all are the same. Ovulation is assumed to take place on the day a woman has the most amount of wet fluid.

Follicles are usually considered mature once they have achieved a size of about 18mm. Also, follicles continue to grow until they release, usually at a rate of about 1-2 mm per day. A woman may ovulate more than one follicle in a cycle, but the releases will occur within 24 hours. When hCG is not used, only follicles close in size are likely to release. The use of hCG induces ovulation in about 95 percent of women, and will get most mature follicles to rupture.

We like to see at least one follicle greater than 18 mm and the remainder of the follicles at least 15 mm. These sizes correlate to oocytes that are mature. The follicles may become larger than 18 mm which will not present a problem.

The amount of time it takes from the start of gonadotropins to the day of release by HCG injection varies among individuals. On average, 10 to 14 days of gonadotropins will be necessary. The retrieval will be scheduled when the follicles reach adequate size. The larger the follicles get, the easier it is to predict the date of retrieval.

Most people will ovulate 12-48 hours after the LH surge is detected, most common is 36 hours after the actual surge. One should get a bit more notice, 24-48 hours, by testing in the afternoon.

Yes, it is possible to ovulate twice but it will occur within 24 hours of each other. Some experts suggest BD the day of your thermal shift in case a second ovulation has occurred.

There is no way for us to know when you ovulate or if someone is pregnant. You can use the fertility awareness method (FAM) to chart your ovulation, but it is recommended you schedule an appointment with a clinician to discuss this method further as it is fairly structured. If you do not use the FAM then ovulation is estimated. Yes. Engaging in vaginal sex can lead to pregnancy, but if protection is used consistently (each and every time) and correctly then it reduces the chances of pregnancy.

You can worm your mare every 2 months while she is pregnant, as you normally do, provided you use a wormer approved for pregnant mares. The label on the box will indicate whether it is safe or not Strongid, ivermectin (eqvalan or zimectin), anthelcide, and benzelmin are all safe.

Your mare can be exercised right up until she foals provided that she is comfortable. Certainly, during the first 8 months of her pregnancy your mare can be ridden. Some mares will develop a lot of edema late in their pregnancy as their mammary glands develop. These mares in particular will benefit from some light exercise; either turn-outs or hand-walking. Common sense should be your guide. O.K. ....

We often think of pregnancy as a delicate and fragile condition. When it comes to horses, this perception is perhaps due to the mare's relatively poor reproductive performance in comparison to other domestic animals. However, in a natural setting, the mare does comparatively well reproductively. Therefore, this seemingly poor performance is due as much to improper management as to any reproductive deficiency. Fortunately, management is something we can control.

If your mare has made it through 11 months of pregnancy, you're almost home free. Labour and delivery, while momentous, are generally uneventful. In most cases, you will simply need to be a quiet observer--if, that is, you are lucky enough to witness the birth. Mares seem to prefer to foal at night in privacy, and apparently have some control over their delivery. Despite your frequent visits to the barn, your mare may give birth the minute you step away. While this is disappointing, don't worry.

of January 01, 2001, all foals being registered must have parentage verified by DNA, which means that the sire and dam have to have DNA established. Therefore, if you plan to use this horse as a breeding animal, a DNA record must be established for the horse. The lab has been saving frozen serum from blood samples collected for blood typing since late 1988. If your horse was blood typed and has frozen serum on file (and it is viable for testing), it will cost $100.