Congratulations, @cripplecreekfrm!
The vet just texted me to let me know that my mare is coming into heat with a 27 mm follicle on the left ovary and will be checked again on Tuesday. Looks like she’s on track, thank goodness, for a breeding later this week. I’m considering offering sacrifices to the FedEx gods. Anything to avoid getting pushed even later into the summer this season!
Arya was checked on Friday, given lutalyse to induce heat - we dropped her off at the clinic this morning, i’m waiting for an update. Hoping she’ll be ready Wed or Thurs… hard to tell with maidens as I never know how big they grow their follicles before popping! My first mare consistently ovulated on 42-45 mm, but my last one grew them big - always letting go after hitting 52-55mm! 
Fingers crossed! 
Good luck @Montanas_Girl ! I had my delivery sent to a Fed-ex authorized pickup location. It was guaranteed to arrive by 1pm and it was there by 10:00. I will never have semen shipped to me directly with how smoothly it went this time.
Thank you, @cripplecreekfrm! She’s at a 38 today; semen was ordered for collection/shipment tomorrow with a plan to breed Thursday. 
All toes and fingers are crossed.
Wow, @Montanas_Girl - 27 to 38 in 2 days! That gives me hope, lol!
Arya was checked yesterday evening, she was at 28mm and just starting her heat. Really hoping she doesn’t have to stay at the clinic an entire week! Thankfully she went there with another mare from our farm, so they’re besties now and they’re being turned out together for a few hours each day, which is great. My girl would go bonkers stalled 24/7 for a week straight. 
Haha. I feel you there. Mine will have been there for two solid weeks, assuming she gets to come home this weekend. And she has a 2.5 week old filly there with her. There is turnout, but apparently Arielle gets upset about the other mares in the paddocks next to her and runs the poor baby ragged when they try to turn her out. Both of them are going to be nutty by the time they come home, I’m afraid!
Well, FedEx didn’t deliver the semen until late this afternoon, and Arielle ovulated this morning. Sigh. Vet said the semen quality was excellent, though, and he put it as deeply into the uterus as he could. So now we just hold our breath and wait two weeks…
Aaaack!!! How frustrating and stressful, OMG! Fingers & toes crossed you still get a pregnancy (i know plenty of ppl who have after inseminating up to 10 hours post-ov!).
Mine FINALLY decided to get with the program… she had a nice big 42mm follicle this AM and grade 3 edema, so vet is inseminating her sometime tomorrow (she’ll check her multiple times since we’re doing frozen). She can come home on Monday morning. Hopefully she doesn’t pool any fluid… she’s a 5 yr old maiden, so here’s hoping. 
My girl had her post pinching checkup Thursday and all is well. Vet saw heartbeat and says she is right where she is supposed to be and took her off the Regumate.
Yay!! That’s great - my mare’s barnmate double ovulated and may very well need a twin pinched, so always good to hear about successful “pinchings”…
Arya was bred with 3 straws right at ovulation early yesterday morning (as in, 12:30 am, apparently LOL), woot woot! Motility was 40-50% post-thaw, which is pretty darn good, and vet reported this morning that she only had a teensy bit of fluid last night and she gave her oxy last night & this morning just to be safe.
Now - we wait! 
good luck! The waiting is always the hardest!
Congrats, @cripplecreekfrm! And good luck with your wait, @ASBJumper! Arielle will be checked on the 28th; I’ll be holding my breath until then.
Congrats and good luck to everyone!
My mare is doing great. Strong fetal heartbeat at the check a couple of weeks ago. The vet is going to run some bloodwork around 100 days to see if she needs to stay on Regumate or not. I would have liked to have her closer to home so I could have kept her in work this summer but she looks fantastic and is loving her break. The farm is stunning up in the mountains with enormous pastures and I think the time is going to be perfect for her to finish maturing physically and I think she’ll come back after the foal is weaned better than ever and ready to go back to work. Already feeling tempted to breed her again and use the stallion that I had really wanted to… I’m super happy with the choice I made and I think the foal is going to be really nice but my original first choice was a stallion only available frozen and I wasn’t able to get any this year by the time I decided to breed and I’d still love to see that cross! Maybe one day! 
DLWB Blueangel bay roan AQHA in foal to Ment To Be (Hank) AQHA bay roan. Big TB looking AQHA mare, 93% foundation breeding, but is very TB confirmation, with a level, not downhill build. Sire is 16H western pleasure bred stallion, but this pairing likely to produce a HUS prospect. Hoping for a blue roan, but bay roan will be ok too.
Well…Arielle had her 18-day ultrasound today. She has a vesicle that is exactly the right size to be an 18-day embryo, but the location makes the vet suspicious that it might be a cyst. She only has a small CL on the left ovary (the ovary from which she ovulated when she was bred) but has what looks to be a fresh CH on the right ovary…so she might have just ovulated. Ugh. I haven’t noticed any signs of her being in heat, but I only have mares here, and she is the dominant/aggressive one, so she doesn’t really interact closely enough with the other horses to show me anything.
The plan is to check her again next week. At that point, assuming she isn’t pregnant, we’ll short cycle again and hope for better luck on one last late-season attempt. Still waiting to hear back from the stallion owner about whether they’ll ship that late in the year. We’re also going to do a culture and cytology on that cycle. She might surprise us and be for sure in foal next week, but neither the vet nor I are holding our breath on that one.
Awwww, sorry to hear this. 
But all hope is not lost…! I mean, does she usually ovulate at Day 16 or 17?? That seems awfully early for her to have cycled again and ovulated by an 18-day check… conversely, some mares do still have follicular activity even while pregnant (https://www.nature.com/articles/161355a0). Sooo… try not to get too discouraged just yet.
Mine gets checked today!! She’d be at 16 days… fingers & toes & eyes crossed…!!
Congratulations!
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