Recipient Mare & Embryo Transfer Learning Center
Understand the people, mares, timing, handoffs, and decisions behind an equine embryo transfer program, from the first breeding plan through foaling and weaning.
Start with clarity
The genetics and the carrying mare are different roles
The donor mare and stallion provide the foal's genetics. The recipient mare receives the embryo, carries the pregnancy, delivers the foal, and normally raises it until weaning.
A successful plan also depends on coordinated veterinary work, laboratory handling when applicable, recipient timing, transportation, identification, pregnancy care, foaling preparation, and a clear contract. These guides explain those connections without replacing the professionals responsible for an individual mare or embryo.
Medical decisions belong to the attending veterinarian. Registration questions belong to the applicable breed registry. Prices, guarantees, and return obligations belong to the current signed service contract.
The Guides
Follow the complete journey
Each guide answers one distinct question, gives the short answer first, and shows where a veterinarian, laboratory, registry, contract, or care team must make the final call.
How Equine Embryo Transfer Works
A plain-language guide to the donor mare, embryo collection, recipient synchronization, transfer, pregnancy checks, and foaling.
Read the guide →How Recipient Mares Are Selected
Understand the health, reproductive, physical, behavioral, identification, and timing considerations behind recipient mare selection.
Read the guide →Shipping an Equine Embryo to a Recipient Facility
A coordination guide for owners sending a fresh, frozen, or ICSI-produced embryo from a veterinarian or laboratory to a recipient program.
Read the guide →How a Recipient Mare Lease Works
A practical overview of reservation, embryo transfer, pregnancy confirmation, pickup or managed care, foaling, weaning, and mare return.
Read the guide →From Embryo Transfer to Foaling and Weaning
Plan the recipient mare's pregnancy checks, routine care, travel, foaling, newborn monitoring, weaning, and return with the appropriate professionals.
Read the guide →Equine ICSI vs. Conventional Embryo Transfer
Compare how conventional embryo transfer and ICSI produce embryos, use semen, involve the donor mare, and connect to a recipient mare.
Read the guide →Equine Embryo Transfer and Recipient Mare Glossary
Clear definitions for donor mare, recipient mare, embryo flush, ICSI, oocyte aspiration, synchronization, cryopreservation, and related terms.
Read the guide →For a shipped embryo
Recipient Mare Leasing
Reserve a recipient, coordinate intake, and review current program terms.
For a donor mare
Reproduction Services
Bring a mare into the breeding, flush, transfer, and foaling program.
For advanced reproduction
ICSI Services
Connect oocyte collection, laboratory work, recipient management, and foaling.
Ready to plan a cycle?