AQHA Breeding

[SparkieHorse]

I just want to preface this with: I am not a backyard breeder. I know what I’m getting myself in to. I know it’s expensive, I know it’s hard. I actually have an AS degree in Equine and have taken a course in reproduction. I’m not just doing this on a whim. Yes, it is a proven show mare.

I am looking at breeding my mare in the spring of 2017. My question is about the procedures and such for dealing with AQHA. I’m planning to do AI. Any helpful advice is appreciated.

[Bluey]

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I just want to preface this with: I am not a backyard breeder. I know what I’m getting myself in to. I know it’s expensive, I know it’s hard. I actually have an AS degree in Equine and have taken a course in reproduction. I’m not just doing this on a whim. Yes, it is a proven show mare.

I am looking at breeding my mare in the spring of 2017. My question is about the procedures and such for dealing with AQHA. I’m planning to do AI. Any helpful advice is appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Don’t really know how basic your question needs to be answered.
Your best bet would be to call the AQHA and ask for their registration department and ask questions there.

Lets see, you have a duly registered AQHA mare and you have transferred her certificate so she is in your name now.
I think today you also, to register foals, need DNA on file for the mare and I would say, not yet a requirement, but recommended a 5 panel test, to be sure she is not carrying something you don’t want to double up with in the stallion, like HERDA or such.

If she is Impressive bred, you need to also have a HYPP test on hand saying she is N/N, I think, to be able to register foals off her, but not sure on that, those requirements were to be implemented over some years, don’t know if we are there yet.

You need to breed to a duly registered stallion, also with DNA and appropriate tests on file.

The stallion owner/manager needs to, at the end of the breeding season, send to the AQHA a stallion report, stating all the mares bred to him.

You can find much of that information on their web site.
Would help if you are an AQHA member.

[SparkieHorse]

She is HYPP N/N and I’m planning on getting her five panel tested. She’s registered with PHBA and AQHA and in my name. I’ve picked an AQHA incentive fund stallion.

You sound like you’ve done this before, Bluey. Should I get her breeding soundness exam done this year, right away? Any advice for AI is appreciated. My college course focused more on live cover.

[Bluey]

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She is HYPP N/N and I’m planning on getting her five panel tested. She’s registered with PHBA and AQHA and in my name. I’ve picked an AQHA incentive fund stallion.

You sound like you’ve done this before, Bluey. Should I get her breeding soundness exam done this year, right away? Any advice for AI is appreciated. My college course focused more on live cover.[/QUOTE]

We used to breed, for decades, have not lately, so not up to the last requirements that have been implemented.

There is a breeder’s forum here, try asking there, they are current on breeding.

[propspony]

AQHA is easy-peasy. Everything can be done online. You do have to be a member to register a foal though. Once the mare has foaled, you order the DNA kit, pull hair and send it in along with (I believe) two photos. You should get a breeders certificate from the stallion owner when you receive the semen. QH is so popular the vet should know what to do with it (re: sending it in, or keeping it) I can’t remember. The five panel can be done at any time. I did it, I think, about a year ago and my filly is now three.

Just talk to the local vet’s office. Make sure they have experience in AI. If they don’t, that can get expensive VERY QUICKLY. My mare caught on the first try and it was still about 1500 from first breeding check until seeing the black dot on the screen. If she hadn’t caught, that cost would have gone up quickly.

Also, remember that foals are cute but they are A LOT of work. I knew what I was doing, but I hadn’t done it in about 20 years, and I was amazed at how much I’d forgotten about that little fact.

I love my filly more than anything in the world, but I still refer to her time between weaning, and well, a month ago as: “The Little Asshole” years. lol That said, She’s a nice, productive member of society, and I’m proud of her.