I have a lease on a mare that has 1 ovary due to a granulosa back in 2012. We have purchased frozen semen from Dracula D’avalon and are looking for a great reproductive vet near the Houston area. He/she needs to be very experienced in frozen semen AI. Any ideas?
P.S. I found an amazing one west of Fort Worth but that’s a 5 hour drive for me. Would love to find one closer!!
Have you asked Kathy? She may be able to direct you to one. You may also want to check with Jan Marquardt from Walkabout Station or Rebecca Pennington from Sonesta Farms. Both are close to Houston. I know Jan has a great vet that does a great job with frozen but I do not know who it is. Drac is lovely, good luck!
You will be hard pressed to find someone with those credentials in Houston. Closest would be TAMU repro department. That, is the closest therio with the facilities to manage a potentially difficult mare with frozen.
You could check with Brazos Valley Equine (10 minutes from tamu) , but I don’t know if they have a repro specialist on board. They do a lot of breeding though.
There are a number of facilities near the DFW area and north of there.
There are only 6 board certified repro specialist vets in the State of Texas. Four of them are on the faculty of TAMU, one is in the Dallas area and the other one is in San Antonio.
Dr. Benjamin Espy, DACT is the vet in San Antonio. He does quite a bit of work on client mares out of my farm here in Boerne, which is 30 miles away. Because I do all of my own ultrasounds and breeding, I have a full breeding lab set up and a 24/7 onsite, trained, 4-year equine science degreed staff to assist me. Dr. Espy addresses any issues I have questions about and does all of my other vet work. He of course comes to check on all of our mares after they foal and to examine the new foals and administer Rhodococcus plasma transfusions to all of them.
Dr. Espy frequently has his other clients send their mares here and utilizes my staff and facilities. I have 4 of his client mares here as I write this. Texas is a huge State and due to his central location, he covers almost all of the southern half of it. It is impossible for a repro vet to be able to get to every farm that needs him to palpate or breed a mare during breeding season when the area he covers is so large. It is much easier if he has one convenient location to get to where he can scan/palpate/inseminate multiple mares at the same time.
I know it is probably the same situation for the other five repro specialists in Texas. Being in Houston, if you need one of these vets, you are going to likely going to have to go to them. Good luck!
Joey Vest is in magnolia and is a certified equine theriogenologist. He is quite good. http://www.erm-texas.com/About%20Us.html
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There are only 6 board certified repro specialist vets in the State of Texas. Four of them are on the faculty of TAMU, one is in the Dallas area and the other one is in San Antonio.
Dr. Benjamin Espy, DACT is the vet in San Antonio. He does quite a bit of work on client mares out of my farm here in Boerne, which is 30 miles away. Because I do all of my own ultrasounds and breeding, I have a full breeding lab set up and a 24/7 onsite, trained, 4-year equine science degreed staff to assist me. Dr. Espy addresses any issues I have questions about and does all of my other vet work. He of course comes to check on all of our mares after they foal and to examine the new foals and administer Rhodococcus plasma transfusions to all of them.
Dr. Espy frequently has his other clients send their mares here and utilizes my staff and facilities. I have 4 of his client mares here as I write this. Texas is a huge State and due to his central location, he covers almost all of the southern half of it. It is impossible for a repro vet to be able to get to every farm that needs him to palpate or breed a mare during breeding season when the area he covers is so large. It is much easier if he has one convenient location to get to where he can scan/palpate/inseminate multiple mares at the same time.
I know it is probably the same situation for the other five repro specialists in Texas. Being in Houston, if you need one of these vets, you are going to likely going to have to go to them. Good luck![/QUOTE]
Who is the Board certified repro specialist in the DFW area?
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You can search for Diplomats of the American College of Theriogenologists including contact information for them here:
http://www.theriogenology.org/search.cfm?displayadvancedsearch=true
If you search for those in Texas, you will get a number of hits.
Seventeen of those listed in Texas are also listed as active diplomats. Seven of the seventeen are listed as being in private practice. Six are listed as being in academia, and four do not list the type of practice.
Drs. Jasko, Niswender and Vest list equine as their primary interest and are in private practice. Dr. Wallace is listed as in private practice with equine listed as a secondary species.
The aforementioned Dr. Espy does not have a primary or secondary species listed.
So, if those data are current, you have your choice of among at least five Diplomats of the ACT that are in private practice in Texas with locations in Magnolia (Vest), Granbury (Niswender), San Antonio (Espy), Peaster (Jasko) and Gainesville (Wallace). Otherwise, you can go to TAMU and be awash in Diplomats.
But, you didn’t actually ask about those with DACT credentials. There are probably many vets and technicians that can handle your mare competently. Kathy St. Martin isn’t a vet and not a Diplomat of the ACT but I would put her up against any that is.
I believe Dr. Steve Van Wagner is good. He is in New Waverly, which is about 45 min north of Houston. I do my own AI with frozen semen and ET, but Dr. Van Wagner is who I use for other equine veterinary services. He is also the one who handles breeding for Jan and Gary Marquardt of Walkabout Station.
I should add another disclaimer: Dr. Niswender is a friend and former fellow graduate student. He is very good. Before doing my own work, I sent a couple of mares to him.
I trust Sonesta that Dr. Vest would be a good choice.
Best of luck.
I use Dr. Mark Rigby of Kasper & Rigby vet clinic in Magnolia (north of Houston). I love him and he’s the only vet (after trying 3-4 before him) who was able to get my very tricky older mare in foal and has successfully done ET work for me.
Make that at least six. It looks like Brazos Valley Equine has Semira Mancill on staff in Navasota. http://www.bveh.com/DrSemiraMancill.htm
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