Equine Reproduction Center

The Equine Reproduction Center (ERC) conducts all aspects of assisted reproduction at its 91-acre facility in Summerfield, Florida. As part of the embryo transfer (ET) program the center maintains one of the largest recipient mare herds in the southeastern United States. Our experience, expertise and facilities allow us to offer many different options by which a breeder can participate in a successful ET program. We offer several options that cover every method that can be employed in ET. The Center is practicing cutting edge technology in equine embryo transfer, and now offers a frozen embryo transfer service. In March 2003 a foal was produced from a frozen embryo that had been implanted into a recipient mare. The entire process was performed at the Center by Peterson & Smith veterinarians and staff. This event marks the first successful birth of this kind in the Southeastern United States.

The Center also offers stallion breeding services, which allows owners to utilize their stallions in a fresh, cooled/shipped or frozen semen breeding program. Stallion owners are also offered a complete frozen semen program, from collection, through storage, to final distribution. As a member of the Select Breeders Service Affiliate Network, the Center is able to provide stallion owners with the leading equine frozen semen program in the industry.

Mare breeding services include live-cover and artificial insemination with fresh semen, cooled shipped semen or frozen semen, and deep uterine insemination.

Other services include:

• Management of the stallion or mare
• Recipient mare herd
• Diagnostic reproduction evaluations
• Stallion breeding soundness/fertility evaluations
• Semen collection and shipment
• USDA approved quarantine facility for semen export
• Treatment of the sub-fertile mare and stallion
• Training stallions to collect or breed
• Oocyte transfer
• Fetal sexing
• Frozen semen storage and distribution
• Endoscopic low dose insemination
• Embryo vitrification

The Center is headed by Philip M. Matthews, DVM. He is assisted by Tanya Thacker, DVM, Federico Morales, DVM and an excellent team of technicians and administrative staff.

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