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Abstract
Put the principles of good breeding management into practice with Equine Breeding Management and Artificial Insemination, 2nd Edition for reproductive success! Practical information on the reproductive management of both thoroughbred and warmblood breeding operations prepares you to effectively breed even problem mares and stallions. Plus, detailed content on techniques, procedures, reproductive physiology, and more help you increase reproductive efficiency as well as track and improve your results throughout each breeding season.
- A section on reproduction efficiency evaluation includes a worksheet to evaluate the performance of both mares and stallions during each breeding season, and helps you compare reproductive performance with previous breeding seasons.
- Detailed descriptions of procedures and techniques including embryo transfer, artificial insemination, and more enable you to implement the methods for better breeding results.
- Practical information on reproductive management of both thoroughbred and warmblood breeding operations enhance the fertility of problem mares and stallions.
- World-renowned authors and contributors with years of practical knowledge and experience provide cutting-edge information.
- Vibrant full-color design and photographs show accurate representations of clinical appearance.
- Chapters covering the latest reproductive techniques improve chances of successful breeding, and improve survival rates after the birth of the foal.
- Vital chapters with information on recognizing potential problems help you quickly identify warning signs before fertility is negatively affected.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Cover | ||
| Equine Breeding Management and Artificial Insemination | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Contributors | v | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Contents | xiii | ||
| Chapter 1 ANATOMY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SRALLION | 1 | ||
| MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING STALLIONS | 1 | ||
| EXTERNAL GENITALIA | 1 | ||
| INTERNAL GENITALIA | 8 | ||
| NEUROENDOCRINE ANATOMY AND FUNCTION | 14 | ||
| REFERENCES | 15 | ||
| Chapter 2 REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY OF THE STALLION | 17 | ||
| THE PINEAL GLAND AND THE HYPOTHALAMIC–PITUITARY–TESTICULAR AXIS | 17 | ||
| ENDOCRINE AND TESTICULAR CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH SEASON | 19 | ||
| SPERMATOGENESIS, STEROIDOGENESIS, AND TESTICULAR FUNCTION: ENDOCRINE-PARACRINE-AUTOCRINE FACTORS | 20 | ||
| IDIOPATHIC SUBFERTILITY AND INFERTILITY IN STALLIONS—THE NATURE OF A HORMONAL IMBALANCE: CAUSE OR RESULT? | 24 | ||
| ENDOCRINE FUNCTION IN STALLIONS WITH POOR FERTILITY | 24 | ||
| HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY DISORDER OR PRIMARY TESTICULAR DISORDER? | 25 | ||
| DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION OF ENDOCRINE-PARACRINE-AUTOCRINE PARAMETERS IN IDIOPATHIC SUBFERTILE AND INFERTILE STALLIONS | 25 | ||
| REFERENCES | 28 | ||
| Chapter 3 SEMEN COLLECTION IN STALLIONS | 33 | ||
| THE SEMEN COLLECTION AREA | 33 | ||
| METHODS OF SEMEN COLLECTION | 33 | ||
| SELECTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL VAGINA | 34 | ||
| SELECTION OF A MOUNT | 35 | ||
| SEMEN COLLECTION PROCEDURE | 38 | ||
| REFERENCES | 39 | ||
| Chapter 4 STALLION SEXUAL BEHAVIOR | 41 | ||
| NORMAL BEHAVIOR OF DOMESTIC STALLIONS | 41 | ||
| FACTORS AFFECTING STALLION BEHAVIOR | 43 | ||
| STALLION BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS | 44 | ||
| THE PERFORMING STALLION | 45 | ||
| REFERENCES | 46 | ||
| Chapter 5 SPERM PHYSIOLOGY | 47 | ||
| SPERMATOGENESIS | 47 | ||
| SPERM TRANSPORT IN THE STALLION | 47 | ||
| THE EQUINE SPERM CELL | 49 | ||
| SPERM CAPACITATION AND THE ACROSOME REACTION | 51 | ||
| APPLICATION OF SPERM CELL BIOLOGY TO EQUINE BREEDING MANAGEMENT | 53 | ||
| REFERENCES | 53 | ||
| Chapter 6 SEMAN EVALUATION | 57 | ||
| ROUTINE MACROSCOPIC EVALUATION (GROSS APPEARANCE) OF STALLION SEMEN | 57 | ||
| MICROSCOPIC AND FLOW CYTOMETRIC EVALUATION OF SEMEN | 58 | ||
| BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF STALLION FERTILITY (COMPONANTS OF SEMINAL PLASMA | 70 | ||
| GENETIC MARKERS OF STALLION FERTILITY | 70 | ||
| REFERENCES | 70 | ||
| Chapter 7 BREEDING MANAGEMENT OF THE THOROUGHBRED STALLION | 75 | ||
| SELECTION OF STALLIONS | 75 | ||
| GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF THE BREEDING STALLION | 75 | ||
| PREVENTIVE MEDICINE | 76 | ||
| ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING PROGRAM | 76 | ||
| BREEDING SOUNDNESS EXAMINATION | 77 | ||
| ESTIMATING A STALLION’S BOOK | 77 | ||
| BREEDING PROGRAMS FOR THOROUGHBRED STALLIONS | 79 | ||
| REFERENCES | 81 | ||
| Chapter 8 BREEDING MANAGEMENT OF THE WARMBLOOD STALLION | 83 | ||
| NUTRITION | 83 | ||
| EXERCISE | 83 | ||
| PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE | 84 | ||
| BREEDING SOUNDNESS EVALUATION | 85 | ||
| TRAINING THE STALLION FOR BREEDING | 85 | ||
| BREEDING SEASON CONSIDERATIONS | 87 | ||
| REFERENCES | 87 | ||
| Chapter 9 HORMONE THERAPY IN THE MARE | 89 | ||
| MANAGEMENT/MANIPULATION OF WINTER ANESTRUS | 89 | ||
| INDUCTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF ESTRUS | 90 | ||
| HORMONAL THERAPY FOR EMBRYO TRANSFER | 92 | ||
| RECIPIENT MANIPULATION | 94 | ||
| HORMONAL THERAPY FOR SUBFERTILITY | 94 | ||
| HORMONAL THERAPY FOR INDUCTION OF LACTATION, ABORTION, AND PARTURITION | 94 | ||
| HORMONAL THERAPY FOR OVARIAN QUIESCENCE | 95 | ||
| HORMONAL THERAPY TO PREVENT ESTROUS BEHAVIOR | 95 | ||
| REFERENCES | 96 | ||
| Chapter 10 MICROBIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF SEMEN | 99 | ||
| BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION | 99 | ||
| VIRAL CONTAMINANTS | 103 | ||
| PARASITIC CONTAMINANTS | 104 | ||
| PREVENTION OF TRANSMISSION OF PATHOGENS | 105 | ||
| DISEASES OF SEMEN | 106 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 109 | ||
| REFERENCES | 109 | ||
| Chapter 11 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MARE | 113 | ||
| TOPOGRAPHIC ANATOMY | 113 | ||
| STRUCTURAL ANATOMY | 115 | ||
| FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY | 124 | ||
| REFERENCES | 130 | ||
| Chapter 12 UTERINE EDEMA IN THE MARE | 133 | ||
| ANESTRUS | 133 | ||
| SPRING TRANSITION | 133 | ||
| THE CYCLING MARE | 133 | ||
| THE POST-PARTUM MARE | 138 | ||
| REFERENCES | 138 | ||
| Chapter 13 BREEDING MANAGEMENT OF THE PROBLEM MARE | 139 | ||
| MARE REPRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY | 139 | ||
| ANATOMIC ABNORMALITIES OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT | 139 | ||
| FUNCTIONAL SUBFERTILITY | 144 | ||
| OVULATORY DYSFUNCTION | 146 | ||
| PREGNANCY FAILURE | 149 | ||
| MUCOCILIARY ACTIVITY | 154 | ||
| REFERENCES | 162 | ||
| Chapter 14 ARIFICAL INSEMINATION WITH FRESH AND COOLED SEMEN | 165 | ||
| HANDLING OF RAW SEMEN | 165 | ||
| SPERM CONCENTRATION | 165 | ||
| SPERM MOTILITY | 166 | ||
| MICROBIOLOGY OF SEMEN | 168 | ||
| TECHNIQUES FOR ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION | 168 | ||
| COLLECTION OF SEMEN FOR ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION | 169 | ||
| EVALUATING SEMEN FOR ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION | 169 | ||
| PROCESSING AND COOLING OF FRESH SEMEN | 169 | ||
| DILUTION RATES | 170 | ||
| EVALUATION OF COOLED SHIPPED SEMEN | 171 | ||
| SEMEN DEPOSITION | 172 | ||
| THE MARE AS A STORAGE PLACE | 172 | ||
| REFERENCES | 173 | ||
| Chapter 15 ARTIFICAL INSEMINATION WITH FROZEN SEMEN | 175 | ||
| STALLION FACTORS | 175 | ||
| SEMEN PROCESSING | 176 | ||
| MARE FACTORS | 178 | ||
| REFERENCES | 182 | ||
| Chapter 16 EQUINE EMBRYO TRANSFER | 185 | ||
| APPLICATIONS OF EMBRYO TRANSFER IN THE EQUINE INDUSTRY | 185 | ||
| PROCESS INVOLVED IN AN EMBRYO TRANSFER PROGRAM | 186 | ||
| SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR EVALUATING AN EMBRYO TRANSFER PROGRAM | 193 | ||
| SOME FACTORS THAT CAN AFFECT EMBRYO RECOVERY RATE | 194 | ||
| FACTORS THAT CAN AFFECT PREGNANCY RATES AFTER TRANSFER | 196 | ||
| ECONOMICS OF A LARGE-SCALE EMBRYO TRANSFER CENTER | 197 | ||
| FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS | 197 | ||
| REFERENCES | 198 | ||
| Chapter 17 COOLING AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF EQUINE EMBRYOS | 201 | ||
| REDUCED TEMPERATURE STORAGE OF EMBRYOS | 201 | ||
| CRYOPRESERVATION OF EMBRYOS | 203 | ||
| CONCLUSIONS | 206 | ||
| REFERENCES | 206 | ||
| Chapter 18 NEW ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES APPLIED FOR THE HORSE INDUSTRY | 209 | ||
| OOCYTE COLLECTION AND IN VITRO MATURATION | 209 | ||
| OOCYTE TRANSFER IN MARES | 212 | ||
| OOCYTE TRANSFER TECHNIQUE | 212 | ||
| GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER (GIFT) | 214 | ||
| IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AND ICSI | 214 | ||
| CLONING | 217 | ||
| REFERENCES | 219 | ||
| Chapter 19 THE EARLY PREGNANCY | 223 | ||
| INTRA-OVIDUCTAL EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT | 223 | ||
| EARLY INTRAUTERINE DEVELOPMENT: THE PRE-FIXATION PERIOD | 224 | ||
| EARLY INTRAUTERINE DEVELOPMENT: THE POST-FIXATION PERIOD | 228 | ||
| PREGNANCY LOSS DURING THE INTRA-UTERINE PERIOD | 232 | ||
| CONCLUSIONS | 236 | ||
| REFERENCES | 236 | ||
| Chapter 20 FETAL MONITORING IN BROODMARES | 241 | ||
| PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND ROUTINE CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL TESTING | 241 | ||
| DETERMINATION OF SERUM HORMONE CONCENTRATIONS | 242 | ||
| REFERENCES | 247 | ||
| Chapter 21 INFECTIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE LAST TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY | 249 | ||
| VIRAL AGENTS | 249 | ||
| BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL AGENTS | 250 | ||
| PARASITIC AGENTS | 253 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 253 | ||
| REFERENCES | 253 | ||
| Chapter 22 PARTURITION AND EVALUATION OF PLACENT | 255 | ||
| HORMONAL CHANGES | 255 | ||
| MILK ELECTROLYTES | 255 | ||
| INDUCTION OF PARTURITION | 256 | ||
| CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTURITION IN MARES | 256 | ||
| EVALUATION OF THE PLACENTA | 257 | ||
| REFERENCES | 258 | ||
| Chapter 23 THE NEWBORN FOAL | 261 | ||
| RISK ASSESSMENT | 261 | ||
| INITIAL FOAL ASSESSMENT | 262 | ||
| POST-PARTUM CARE | 264 | ||
| ROUTINE VETERINARY EXAMINATION | 266 | ||
| ORGAN SYSTEM EXAMINATION AND DISORDERS | 269 | ||
| NEUROLOGICAL AND OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SYSTEMS | 272 | ||
| UROGENITAL SYSTEM | 273 | ||
| GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM | 274 | ||
| MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS | 274 | ||
| IMMUNIZATION OF THE LATE-TERM MARE AND THE NEWBORN FOAL | 275 | ||
| ANTHELMINTIC USE | 275 | ||
| ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE | 275 | ||
| ORPHAN FOAL MANAGEMENT | 275 | ||
| REFERENCES | 276 | ||
| Chapter 24 BREEDING THE POST-PARTUM MARE | 277 | ||
| STRATEGIES FOR POST-PARTUM BREEDING | 277 | ||
| DELAYING THE FOAL HEAT | 278 | ||
| SHORT CYCLE AFTER FOAL HEAT OVULATION | 278 | ||
| SECOND NATURAL OVULATION | 278 | ||
| POST-FOALING THERAPIES | 278 | ||
| REFERENCES | 279 | ||
| Chapter 25 PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BROODMARE AND THE FOAL | 281 | ||
| VACCINATION | 281 | ||
| IMMUNOLOGY OF THE FOAL | 282 | ||
| VACCINATION IN THE BROODMARE AND THE FOAL | 282 | ||
| PARASITE CONTROL | 286 | ||
| REFERENCES | 287 | ||
| Chapter 26 EVALATION OF REPRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY | 289 | ||
| INFLUENCE OF MARE TYPE ON PREGNANCY OUTCOME | 290 | ||
| MARE AGE | 290 | ||
| SEASONALITY OF PREGNANCY | 290 | ||
| MATHEMATICS OF HORSE BREEDING | 291 | ||
| NATURAL COVER VERSUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION | 292 | ||
| REFERENCES | 294 | ||
| Chapter 27 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EQUINE GENOME FOG THE HORSE INDUSTRY | 295 | ||
| STATUS OF THE EQUINE GENOME AND GENOMIC RESOURCES | 295 | ||
| CHARACTERIZATION OF INHERITED DISEASES OF THE HORSE | 295 | ||
| CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES AND INFERTILITY | 296 | ||
| PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE | 297 | ||
| REFERENCES | 297 | ||
| Index | 299 |