thought you might like it keeps you in touch with the rest of the horsey world. Don't forget to look at the stallion service auction. I know you want to breed with frozen this year check out the different vets and what there conseption rate is Roxy is good she knows what she is doing, maybe we can lutilize our mares at the same time and I can take your mare when mine goes. I have one breeding dose to use on Maggie my ER mare I am breeding her to Toronto early spring. let me know not sure what the cost will be depends on your mare and how long she has to stay at the clinic for.
Renee

in my experience 5 star told me to take my Toronto Semen to Roxy because I only had 2 breeding doses and they were not going to split it up the way Roxy would. the way they do it is that they breed the mare right before she ovulates and then the next day with what ever semen they have left over say 1 dose (straw) Roxy waits till the mare has ovulated then she puts the semen in deep horn insemination. no we were not successful with maggie but I did receive the semen late in the season and yo uknow they shorten there heat cycles and we decided to hold off and save to last dose for this year and try again. if I had stayed with 5 star I would have no semen left and possibly no foal either. they were successful with my shipped cooled that came from the states but 5 star has a way of flushing the crap out of your mare and charging you everytime they have to do it. you are better off buying your semen through www.superiorequinesires.com and getting jen or someone that is shipping from there to ship it back it is less expensive that way. on that site your guys semen is 750 per breeding dose which generally holds 3 straws. now this is my experience not my money. it is not cheaper to go frozen it can range anywhere from 800 - 1500 to breed on 1 cycle and do not keep your mare there for 30 days bring her there on day 3 of her heat and pick her up after she ovulates if you take her home after 30 days of being in foal she could abort it is risky to have them travel you then bring her back on day 14 -18 for a preg check, day 14 if you are checking for twins. but a horse will only twin if she has a super long heat and you have to keep breeding her. Roxy would just pinch the twin off. this is only my opionion I myself would like to learn how to do it and I need to be better with my ultra sound machine.
Renee

can you not get fresh on him instead of frozen it would cut down on your costs, I shipped fresh from the states it came fed ex I bred the mare and she caught right away you should try to explore that option as well unless the said stallion is dead then you have to go with frozen. its generally cheaper and then you could get 5 star to do it but be aware of the flushing of your mare cause it ended up costing my friend 800 at the end, and they flushed her 10 times in 3 days not saying that would happen to you but your mare is not a maiden mare so she may need to be flushed at least twice. what happened with me is they coroloned my mare 36 hours before ovulation then they ordered the semen it arrived in Calgary (just my luck) the mare had already ovulated in the early morning the semen did not arrive at the clinic until the after noon they did breed the mare which she did catch but I would have been mad if she didn't catch because they forced the ovulation to early. then they told me that I could not breed the mare myself because they were regular breeders and used fed ex for that purpose so right there they out right lied to me (the semen would have arrived at my moms work and I would have picked it up and bred the mare at home and saved 600 dollars).
if your mare catches first time then you can stick the rest in storage and breed her next year. but yeah if you r mare is in heat the same time as maggie then I will definetly take her down for you. but I will be breeding her in the beginning of may so if she does not catch I can try again with fresh and breed her to florian.

just remember the first heat cycle will be at least 11 or so days it is called a transitional heat they build double faulicles then it will generally happens depending on weather in feb march the heat after that should be 5 days you'll notice on day 3. then we will bring her to my house and either syncronise my mare with yours or or yours with mine and then take them down. get your semen now talk to roxy and get it shipped asap so that it is there and waiting. try not to wait that long to get it. and if you get it shipped now Roxy will send her frozen semen container out to pick it up and get it shipped right back to her so you don't have the hastle of sending the ladies container back to her, and roxy's container should be available know to use.

there website is www.bellvet.ca and phone number is 780)352-8483 hope that helps

Thank you so much for the complement on our minis. We try very hard to breed top quality horses and we strive for the arabian look.
Thanks agian

Thanks! It sounds like your foal is going to be fantastic. Chance is six years old and I'll have had him two years this June. He's the first young horse I have trained up and it's been a great experience so far.

Hi,

I'm still fascinated by the internet joining people with the same interests over the complete world. It's great!

You're probably too young to have seen the Olympics in Bromont, Canada yourself, but just if you want to see something unusual,- check the show jumping course in the 2nd round of the individual competition.
Its frightening! I remember it as I saw it on TV when I was at a horse show myself. We were sitting in a tent (drinking beer) when it was shown. Already the TV was breath taking, I have a book with the details, hights, distances etc. - vvow.

Well, my best wishes for a new year!
Ciao
Bernd

Thanks! She'll be happy to hear that.

Hi , Sure we can chat about coaching . If you want to have a look at my web site it's www.lanyonridingcentre.com Cheers Geoffrey

wow... you do have quite a house hold! but in such a great way.

i love arabs... this summer i rode with a girl who does endurance riding and i rode a couple of her arabs... so sweet.... and it taught me a lot about posting.. ha ha!! but not sure at 56 if endurance is for me...
i just want to cruise along... no hurry...
Perfect is a TWH... and will be about 15' 2 hands... he is a little love.
I could not have asked for a better horse to help me with my new experience... It will be fun taking long walks and experiencing everything that there is to see and do. he is really good about my toucing him all over his body and when i slide my hand to his pastern and say 'hoof up' he is so good about it... but in the hing legs i have to ask more directly!
i don't have any specific plans for Perfect other than to love him and ride him when he is ready.... and who knows... maybe more... but for now... it is bonding and ground manners for this little guy:)

Don't have a computer right now. I am using my mom's or the one at the store when I get a chance.
I know what you mean, baby's going to be a soccer player I think. Only 10 weeks and 6 days to go (lol).

Yeah, a gypsey vanner, but also known as a 'gypsey cob', they're used here in the riding schools, which is where 'Merry Gerry' came from, they retired him, he was hard work, only I could get him going, so whenhe came up for sale I bought him. He's a real plod, I love him and he look after me, I'm still very much a novice.
Love your videos,
catch you later.
Helen

hahah well yeah...It's been one of my nick names since grade eight lol.

Hi Amanda, Glad to hear you are well and the baby is settling in. Are you riding yet?

It is a bit of a challenge with a baby in toe!!! What have you done at the shows you've been to? The spring season has just started for us, went to Monarto HT on the weekend. Did an absolutely crap dressage test!!! can't remember ever being stone motherless last before. I got a bit tence before the test because I couldn't find some gear, so that didn't help. Oh, we got two thirds at the Royal Adelaide Show in the Section 4's. So that was good. The jumping phases at the HT were much better, Itchy's first Prelim round(95cm) had two silly stops x-country, but jumped a cracker of a round showjumping. 16th at the end.Glad to here you are doing some teaching again. Cheers Geoffrey

Off to Reynella on the 10th for another Prelim event, wont be last at this one!!

Thank you! He's taught me so much. :)

I'm always impressed with people who can bake! Do you bake a lot?