Equine Embryo Services for Breeders and Veterinarians
We offer a variety of equine embryo services including transvaginal ovarian aspiration of eggs, ICSI in vitro fertilization, freezing embryos, and embryo biopsy services, and many others. We are also receiving shipped oocytes from anywhere in the US for ICSI production of embryos for storage and shipping for embryo transfer.
About ICSI
Horse breeders are well aware that for every successful embryo transfer pregnancy and subsequent foaling, numerous embryos can be lost. This is due to failure of maturation of eggs, fertilization, or embryo death before transferring to a recipient along with failure to establish or maintain a pregnancy, or a result of chromosomal defects. This process is costly to horse breeders and poorly understood by equine scientists.
In the past 10-15 years Equine Assisted Reproductive Technology (EqART) has experienced significant growth for breeders, particularly with the advent of intracytoplasmic sperm injections into matured eggs (ICSI). UC Davis’ tradition of serving horse breeders and our long-standing relationship with the horse industry in California and around the world led to a wide range of advances in equine health including Equine Reproduction.
Visit the Equine Reproduction Center for more info and scheduling for your mares
MiriTL® Non-Invasive Embryo Time-Lapse Imaging
Our laboratory is one of the few Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) centers in the world that is equipped with the ability to monitor growing equine embryos with a live embryo monitoring system, allowing us to evaluate the embryo formation precisely.