Roughly, what to you budget to get a mare in foal to frozen semen?
Just out of curiosity more than anything. What do you ball park spend to get a pregnancy? Including semen, vet fees, boarding at repro vets, added extras.
Semen-$1250-1500, breeding fees, including insemination, board (if mare takes on first cycle)-1000. My experience has been about 3000-4000 to get the mare in foal, including semen. The last 3 foals, I have sent out to be foaled out and that is approximately 500 plus board. So, by the time I have a foal on the ground, I have invested between $3000-5000. Out of 6 foals, I have only had one that needed vet care upon foaling and it was still a conservative fee, being about $500.00.
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Semen-$1250-1500, breeding fees, including insemination, board (if mare takes on first cycle)-1000. My experience has been about 3000-4000 to get the mare in foal, including semen. The last 3 foals, I have sent out to be foaled out and that is approximately 500 plus board. So, by the time I have a foal on the ground, I have invested between $3000-5000. Out of 6 foals, I have only had one that needed vet care upon foaling and it was still a conservative fee, being about $500.00.[/QUOTE]
This is about what frozen has cost me. I’ve found that Frozen has several of its own quirks b/c of the defrosting, and storage and timing the mare has to be board, unlike fresh cooled that can be done at home with ambulatory vets.
It costs me about $1k+ per cycle, including board, as I send my mares to a repro. specialist for breeding. The frozen semen cost is dependent, of course, on how many doses and how expensive, plus shipping, which is around $250. It totals around $2500 per cycle, all included.
I wonder why more people don’t answer these threads–there has to be more than three people that have used frozen semen before?
The previous posters sound about right. My cost is much lower now because I do all of the A/I and ultrasounds myself and I have my own liquid nitrogen storage tank.
Before I did it myself, my vet costs alone (cost of semen doses not included) were averaging $8K per month to breed 4 mares.
If you are breeding more than a couple of mares each year, it is well worth it to consider learning to do it yourself. My pregnancy success rate is much higher as well (over 90%).
I’m budgeting $3500-4000 for my mare for the cost of semen, insemination, boarding at vets and hidden extras. I was just wondering whether that’s about the average which is does seem to be. If you are doing a lot of mares every year the courses to do it yourself would be well worth it!
I budget about $1200 for breeding fee’s and mare care. So far, that has been enough. If I lived a bit closer to the vet it would be cheaper. Stud fee is of course additional. This fee is for dropping the mare off, unlimited teasing and ultrasounds and one insemination. So far I am batting 1000 for 1st time inseminations.
Tim
