11/04/2025
☀️🐴 Breeding Season is Approaching! 🐴 🌱
Breeding season is just around the corner! Here are the services we’re proud to provide at Ironwood Equine this upcoming year:
🐎 Mare Reproductive Services 🐎
We offer comprehensive reproductive care for mares, including breeding soundness examinations and breeding management for live-cover, cooled-shipped, and frozen semen. We provide estrus cycle monitoring and ovulation timing, as well as artificial insemination with fresh, chilled, and frozen semen.
Additional services include embryo transfer, pregnancy diagnosis, and in-house quantitative progesterone testing. We also perform uterine cultures and cytologies, uterine infusions and lavages, twin reductions, and Caslick surgery. High-risk pregnancies are closely monitored, including placental assessment, and we offer a full boarding facility for broodmare management.
🍼 Foaling Services 🍼
Our facility offers 24-hour monitoring of mares using video cameras and “FoAlert” monitoring systems. An experienced veterinarian and assistant are present during foaling to assist with the birth — including cases of dystocia or difficult delivery — and perform immediate life-saving procedures when necessary.
We provide complete newborn care, including physical exams to check for congenital defects, umbilical cord care, and routine enemas to help prevent meconium impaction. The foal’s IgG levels are tested in-house producing a quantitative number to ensure they have adequate immunity, and plasma transfusions are administered if needed.
Postpartum mare care includes a thorough physical exam and placenta inspection to ensure it has passed completely. We also offer stall-side oxygen in emergencies, IV fluid pumps, and on-site lab testing for critically ill foals.
Foal management services include evaluation and treatment of flexural and angular limb deformities (with x-rays as needed), and screening for respiratory and gastrointestinal disease.
We have two truck and trailers onsite in the event a foaling mare requires a C-section and can provide transportation to an emergency referral facility for that procedure. Mares typically arrive at our facility a few weeks to a month before their due date to acclimate to the new environment and build local antibodies in their milk. We also offer long-term boarding for mares enrolled in the Indiana Thoroughbred Breed Development Program. Veterinarian and assistant live on property.
🏇 Stallion Reproductive Services 🏇
Our stallion services include breeding soundness and pre-breeding examinations, phantom training, semen analysis, semen freezing, and post-thaw evaluation. We also stand stallions commercially for domestic semen distribution.
If you have a question about a service not seen here, or would like more information about one listed, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
📍 Ironwood Equine — Chandler, IN
📞 812-457-3643
📧 [email protected]
📅 Now scheduling for the 2026 breeding season!aian
