09/02/2026
Attention breeders!! We are running another OPU clinic on September 16. If you missed our March clinic, want to do a second round, or have reached the end of the breeding season with an open mare and concluded that ICSI may be the only way for her to produce foals…this is your chance! And, the entire process is done within Canada, from start to finish.
Please contact us immediately if you are interested, as we can only do a limited number of mares. Your mares may arrive on the 15th and be picked up on the 17th. The oocytes retrieved will be shipped in a special incubator, on the 16th to Viagen in Alberta, as soon as we finish all the mares that day and have the follicles prepared for transport. You will need to send your semen of choice to Viagen ahead of time, so that they have it ready for the ICSI fertilization process once your mares follicles have developed (typically a few days). Viagen will update you with the number of follicles that matured, the number that were successfully fertilized, and how many developed into embryos at the morula stage (in 6-10 days). The embryos are then frozen and shipped back to us, and can be implanted into recipient mares next year.
We do ask that you have your mare scanned within the next week to determine where she is in her cycle, and what the size and number of follicles that might be available are. Please send us a video of the scan and we will advise if your mare should get a hot shot or regumate to manage the cycle before the clinic, as we cannot retrieve follicles if the mare is actively in heat.
