Table Of ContentEquine Reproductive Procedures
Equine Reproductive Procedures
John J. Dascanio, VMD
Diplomate ACT and ABVP (Equine)
Professor
Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Clinical Sciences
Basseterre, St Kitts, West Indies
Lincoln Memorial University – College of Veterinary Medicine
Harrogate, TN, USA
Patrick M. McCue, DVM, PhD
Diplomate ACT
Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Contents
ListofContributors xiii 8 UltrasoundEvaluationofthe
Preface xv Non-PregnantMare 26
PatrickM.McCue
Section I Non-Pregnant Mare 9 PredictionofOvulation 32
PatrickM.McCue
1 ReproductiveEvaluationoftheMare 3
PatrickM.McCue 10 SpeculumExaminationoftheVagina 35
JohnJ.Dascanio
2 Teasing 6
PatrickM.McCue 11 DigitalExaminationoftheVagina/Cervix 38
SofieSitters
3 TailWrapandPreparation/Washingof
thePerineum 9 12 UterineCultureCollection:Swab/Brush 41
JohnJ.Dascanio JohnJ.Dascanio
4 PlacementofaTailRope 14 13 AntimicrobioticSensitivityTesting 44
JohnJ.Dascanio JillianBishopandPatrickM.McCue
5 PerinealConformationEvaluation 17 14 Microbiology:MicrobialCulture 46
JohnJ.Dascanio PatrickM.McCueandJillianBishop
6 RemovalofaPersistentHymen 20 15 Microbiology:GramStain 51
JohnJ.Dascanio JillianBishopandPatrickM.McCue
7 PalpationoftheReproductiveTractofthe
16 qPCRAssayfortheDiagnosisof
Non-PregnantMare 22
InfectiousEndometritis 53
PatrickM.McCue
RyanA.FerrisandPatrickM.McCue
v
vi Contents
17 UterineCytologyCollection:Swab/Brush 58 32 UterineInfusion 106
JohnJ.DascanioandRyanA.Ferris JohnJ.Dascanio
18 UterineCulture/Cytology:LowVolume 33 RestraintforBreeding 109
Lavage 64 JohnJ.Dascanio
JohnJ.Dascanio
34 NaturalService:PastureBreeding 112
19 EndometrialBiopsy 68 PatrickM.McCue
PatrickM.McCue
35 NaturalService:In-handBreeding 114
20 HysteroscopicExaminationoftheUterus 71 CharlesF.Scoggin
PatrickM.McCue
36 BreedingStitches 117
21 EndometrialCystRemoval 74 CharlesF.Scoggin
JohnJ.Dascanio
37 ReinforcementBreeding 119
22 ChromosomalAnalysis 77 CharlesF.Scoggin
TeriL.Lear
38 BreedingwithFreshorCooledSemen 121
23 EndocrinologicalExamination 83 JohnJ.DascanioandPatrickM.McCue
PatrickM.McCue
39 InseminationThroughaVaginal
24 LaparoscopicExaminationoftheUterus Speculum 125
andOvaries 85 PatrickM.McCue
FaustoBellezzo
40 BreedingwithFrozenSemen 127
25 EvaluationoftheMammaryGland 88 JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
41 DeepHornInsemination 131
26 AntispermAntibodyTesting 91 JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
42 Hysteroscopic(LowDose)Insemination 133
27 StarchGranuleTestfortheEvaluationof PatrickM.McCue
OviductalPatency 93
SofieSittersandJohnJ.Dascanio 43 CaslickOperationorVulvoplasty 136
JohnJ.Dascanio
28 FluorescentMicrospheresTestfor
EvaluationofOviductalPatency 95 44 ContagiousEquineMetritisTesting 140
SofieSittersandJohnJ.Dascanio JohnJ.Dascanio
29 OviductalFlushProcedureforthe 45 ManagementofSeasonalAnestrus:
EvaluationofOviductalPatency 97 ArtificialPhotoperiod 144
SofieSittersandPatrickM.McCue PatrickM.McCue
30 ProstaglandinE TreatmentforBlocked 46 ManagementofSeasonalAnestrus:
2
Oviducts 100 HormoneTherapy 146
PatrickM.McCueandSofieSitters PatrickM.McCue
31 UterineLavage 102 47 HormoneTherapyinCyclingMares 149
JohnJ.Dascanio PatrickM.McCue
Contents vii
48 EstrusSuppression 155 62 CombinedThicknessoftheUterusand
PatrickM.McCue Placenta 205
PatrickM.McCue
49 UseofanIntrauterineBallinEstrus
Suppression 158 63 DopplerUltrasonography 208
JohnJ.Dascanio JohnJ.Dascanio
50 HarvestingandShippingOvariesfor 64 PredictionofFetalAge 212
OocyteRecovery 161 JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
65 TwinReduction:ManualTechnique 216
JohnJ.Dascanio
Section II Pregnant Mare
66 TwinReduction:TransvaginalAspiration 219
51 EmbryoCollection 165 JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
67 TwinReduction:Cranio-Cervical
52 EmbryoEvaluation 169 Dislocation 222
PatrickM.McCue SofieSittersandKarenWolfsdorf
53 EmbryoBiopsy 173 68 TwinReduction:TransabdominalFetal
PatrickM.McCue CardiacPuncture 226
JohnJ.Dascanio
54 EmbryoPackagingforCooledTransport 175
69 ElectiveTerminationofPregnancy 229
PatrickM.McCue
JohnJ.Dascanio
55 EmbryoCryopreservation 178
70 AbortionDiagnosticEvaluation:Sample
PatrickM.McCue
CollectionintheFieldandSubmission 232
JulieT.CecereandJohnJ.Dascanio
56 Non-SurgicalEmbryoTransfer 182
PatrickM.McCue
71 EndocrineEvaluationofPregnancy 235
PatrickM.McCue
57 PalpationofthePregnantMarePer
Rectum 185
72 TreatmentofVaginalVaricosities 240
SofieSitters
JohnJ.Dascanio
58 UltrasoundExaminationofthePregnant
73 ManualCorrectionofUterineTorsion 243
Mare 188
JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
74 PreparationoftheMareforFoaling 246
59 SpeculumExaminationofthePregnant JohnJ.Dascanio
Mare 193
SofieSitters
75 AssessmentofMammaryGland
SecretionstoPredictFoaling 249
60 UltrasoundDeterminationofFetalSex 195 JohnJ.Dascanio
RichardD.Holder
76 AssessmentofpHofMammaryGland
61 AssessmentofFetalWell-being 201 SecretionstoPredictFoaling 253
JohnJ.Dascanio PatrickM.McCue
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77 MonitoringofPeri-ParturientMares 92 PlacentalEvaluation 304
UsingVideoandWebCameras 256 PatrickM.McCue
RyanA.FerrisandEttaA.Bradecamp
93 RemovalofRetainedPlacenta 309
78 FoalingAlert:VulvarDevice 259 JohnJ.Dascanio
JohnJ.Dascanio
94 AbdominocentesisinthePostpartum
79 PositionalLaborAlertDevices 261 Mare 312
EttaA.BradecampandRyanA.Ferris JohnJ.Dascanio
80 InductionofParturition 264 95 UterineProlapseTreatment 314
JohnJ.Dascanio JohnJ.Dascanio
81 PrematureSeparationofthePlacenta 267 96 BuhnerNeedlePlacementofaPerivulvar
PatrickM.McCue Suture 317
JohnJ.Dascanio
82 DystociaManagement 270
PatrickM.McCueandSofieSitters
Section IV Stallion
83 DystociaCorrection 275
JohnJ.Dascanio 97 BreedingSoundnessEvaluationofthe
Stallion 321
84 Fetotomy 280 PatrickM.McCue
JohnJ.Dascanio
98 TrainingofaStalliontoUseaPhantom 325
85 Epidural 285 JohnJ.Dascanio
JohnJ.Dascanio
99 MissouriArtificialVagina 329
86 InductionofLactationtoCreateaNurse JohnJ.Dascanio
Mare 287
PatrickM.McCue 100 ColoradoModelArtificialVagina 332
PatrickM.McCue
87 ScreeningthePregnantMaretoPrevent
NeonatalIsoerythrolysis 289 101 RoanokeArtificialVagina 336
PatrickM.McCue JohnJ.Dascanio
102 HannoverArtificialVagina 340
Section III Postpartum Mare
SofieSitters
88 EvaluationofColostrumSpecificGravity 293 103 TeaserStallions 342
PatrickM.McCue CharlesF.Scoggin
89 EvaluationofColostrumQuality:Brix 104 StandingSemenCollection 344
Refractometry 297 JohnJ.Dascanio
PatrickM.McCue
105 ChemicalEjaculation 347
90 ColostrumBanking 299 PatrickM.McCue
PatrickM.McCue
106 PreparationofaJumpMareoraMarefor
91 ObtainingMilkfromtheMare 302 NaturalCover 349
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