The Vets Program

Advanced Equine Reproduction for Veterinarians

This course will concentrate on recent advances in equine reproduction. The main emphasis will be on ET, cooled transported semen, frozen semen and improvements in our on farm veterinary procedures.

Dates: Monday July 30 and Tuesday July 31, 2001.

Topics:

Monday July 30

	8.00 - 9.30 Embryo Transfer: Normal procedures; Assisted reproductive techniques. (ELS)
	9.30 - 10.00 Morning Tea
	10.00 - 11.30 Ultrasonography: What’s new. (AOM)
	11.30 - 12.30 Advances in surgical techniques for the foal. (JRV and TBL)
	12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
	2.00 - 3.00 The principles of freezing horse semen. (PRL)
	3.00 - 4.00 Factors affecting fertility of cooled, transported semen. (ELS)
	4.00 - 4.30 Afternoon Tea
	4.30 - 6.00 How to collect and properly evaluate semen. Stallion fertility evaluation. (AOM, ELS and PRL)
	6.00 -7.30 Attitude adjustment. (Courtesy of Kentucky Equine Research)
	8.00 Dinner

Tuesday July 31

	8.00 - 9.00 Recent advances in hormonal management of both broodmares and stallions. (ELS )
	9.00 - 10.00 Breeding mares with Frozen semen (ELS, AOM and PRL)
	10.00 - 10.30 Morning Tea
	10.30 - 11.30 The Relationship Between Glycemic Response and the Incidence of OCD in Thoroughbred Weanlings: A Field Study (PJH)
	11.30 - 12.30 The Select Breeder Service story (PRL)
	12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
	2.00 - 2.30 Advances in surgical techniques for stallions. (JRV)
	3.00 - 4.00 Breeding the Problem Mare and Mare surgery. (AOM)
	4.00 - 5.00 Reproductive efficiency (AOM)
	5.00 - 6.00 Panel Discussion

Speakers:

Ed Squires: Ed is a professor at Colorado State University and is widely regarded as Mr. Embryo Transfer. He pioneered equine embryo transfer in 1979 and his team were first to create identical twins from non surgically recovered eggs, first to obtain foals from GIFT and ICSI and first to obtain pregnancies from sex selected sperm. In addition he has done more research on freezing semen than anyone else that we know.
Ed will bring a wide range of research and a practical experience to the course.

Paul Loomis: Paul started ‘Select Breeders Services, Inc’ at Colora, Maryland, USA. in 1984. He concentrates only on freezing horse semen and has established a network of veterinary practices throughout the world. He believes that in time cooled semen will be replaced by frozen semen and that it will all be distributed with a live foal guarantee. Paul has more than likely frozen more semen commercially than anyone else in the world.

Angus McKinnon: Angus has been a practical equine veterinarian and researcher for many years now. He was the architect behind the text book “Equine Reproduction’ and has received numerous awards for his work in reproductive research. During the breeding season he is responsible for the veterinary management of over 1000 Thoroughbred mares as well as running the ET, frozen and problem mare programs that the GVEH is so well known for.

Jim Vasey: Jim is a surgeon for which the phrase ‘a chance to cut is a chance to cure’ seems to have been made. He coordinates all the surgical procedures at the GVEH and has built the hospital caseload up to ~ 800 surgeries per year. However there is more to Jim than just surgery. For 20 straight years he has been providing AI service to one large (>250 mares) Standardbred farm, so he has a real appreciation of what things happen on farms.

Tim B Lescun: An intern with us in 1996. We were so impressed with this young man that we sent him to the US in search of residencies. Purdue University was the one smart enough to grab him. Now, after 4 years there, we are proud to welcome him back. Surgery is his strength and he ranks as one of the youngest ever to gain the world acclaimed 'Board Certification' in Equine Surgery.

Peter Huntington: Peter is the Director of the Australian division of Kentucky Equine Research (KER). They have some very interesting things to tell us about analysis of farm rations for the prevention of OCD.

Costs: Whole Course… ..@ $600

Daily…………………….@ $300

(GST Additional)

Course costs include, morning and afternoon tea, lunches (Monday and Tuesday) and dinner on Monday night.

Accommodation:
The course will all be at the Parklake, 481 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria.
They can be contacted on ph 0358 215822 or Fax 0358 210894 or
e mail parkshep@fc-hotels.com.au

Please mention that you are part of the veterinary conference for better rates.

Registration:

Contact details for the hospital are:

0358 299 566 Phone (24 hours)
0357 299 307 Fax

gvequine@iinet.net.au e mail

Or e mail Angus who is organising the courses

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