Ovulation Achieved

Dr. Hoerr was scheduled to come this morning but we didn't know exactly when so the mares were brought to the paddock next to the stall barn for easy access. Today we were checking Jewel and Hadassah for pregnancy, Whitney for ovulation, Serenity to see if she had cycled, Emma needed a new coggins and an ultrasound to see where she was in her cycle and Zenia, Indy's filly needed a coggins test to travel to California to her new home. Dr. Hoerr arrived around 11:00 and drew blood first from the 2 for coggins then started the sonagrams. Hadassah was first we are pleased to announce she is PREGNANT!

 She is due July 18th, 2016. Jewel was next and again we are pleased to announce she also is PREGNANT!

Jewel is due July 20th, 2016 but both of these mares go early each year so we will need to bring them home in June next year. Whitney was next. Whitney was covered yesterday by Valiant but today she screamed at Killian when I brought her over and sure enough she had already ovulated.

Serenity was the mare I was actually holding my breath for just hoping the ultrasound would show something. The first thing Dr. Hoerr announced was that at least she had some uterine tone. Then he started looking for the ovaries and saw that she was ovulating.

We took her right over to Evan and had him cover her. We are not sure it is a viable egg but at least she cycled. Tomorrow after work all 4 of these mares plus the foals will be taken to Middle Grove. Hadassah and Jewel to stay until weaning their foals, Whitney and Serenity will need to come back in 16 or so days for pregnancy checks. Emma was also sonagrammed, she had a few smaller follicles the largest was at 25 mm so she was given a shot, tomorrow we will tease and Friday we will cover her. After Dr. Hoerr left the mares were turned out then Diane and I went to Berean to enter all the letters that came in yesterday. We finished in under 2 hours, stopped at Sam's Club for a few groceries then made it home in time to feed the horses before we needed to get ready for church. Mike Reiker had the service tonight.