Reproduction
Chicago Equine Medical Center offers basic reproduction services including assistance with breeding mares, artificial insemination, problem mares and preventative health programs to maintain pregnant mares and healthy foals. Services include:
Brood mare evaluation and management
- Ultrasonography procedures including ovaries, uterus and cervix
- Speculum examinations
- Problem mare evaluations
Hormonal Synchronization of the estrous cycles for breeding via:
- Transported cooled semen
- Artificial insemination
Diagnostics and monitoring of pregnancy maintenance problems via palpation and ultrasound
Preventative health programs for maintain pregnancy and healthy foals
- Neonatal care
- Early detection and treatment of neonatal problems such as failure of passive transfer, septicemia, septic joints, hypoxia
