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Fees
Mare Fees
Artificial
Insemination
Mares are taken at livery for insemination with fresh, chilled or frozen
semen including semen that has been send from elsewhere. Mares should arrive
prior to coming in season and will be constantly monitored to obtain the
optimum timing for insemination.
Boarding
Fees
At grass:
£5.00 (+VAT) / day for barren mares
£7.00 (+VAT) / day for mares with foal at foot
Stabled:
£10.00 (+VAT) / day for barren mares
£12.00 (+VAT) / day for mares with foals at foot
Long term boarders and over wintering rates available on application.
Veterinary
Fees
Our aim is to get mares in foal as easily & quickly as possible for the
mare owner and we have the back up to help us do so. All veterinary work
associated with equine reproduction will be carried out by our veterinarian
Aleksandra Jagusiak (MRCVS). All expenses incurred for visits, examinations
and medicines will be payable by the mare owner directly to Scotland AI
Service at the end of each month.
Scanning fees:
Fresh and chilled semen: £140 (+VAT) per cycle
Frozen semen: £240 (+VAT) per cycle. This includes deep uterine insemination
Insemination fee:
Fresh and chilled semen: £15 (+VAT) / insemination
Mares will be accepted at an 'all in package' to cover routine veterinary
reproduction work. Routine includes scans, drugs and one PD scan at 16 days,
a second scan at 28/30 days and a third scan at about 42 days; it does not
include swabs, twinning, caslicks, lavage etc and the treatment of mares
with endometritis and other non routine matters.
In
foal Fee
There will be NO in-foal fee for the 2009 breeding season!
Miscellaneous
Charges for a range of miscellaneous items which will not apply to all mares,
such as farriery work, worming, chilled semen collection from Edinburgh
Airport, etc. are available on request.
Mares and foals whilst on the AI centre receive every possible care, attention
and supervision. Veterinary assistance is called in when deemed necessary
and is chargeable to the owner. All mares are served at their owner's risk
and no responsibility can be accepted for injury, damage or loss caused
through trying to or serving any mare.
All in foal mares need to have a 28/30-day PD scan to confirm a single
viable and healthy pregnancy; if mares leave before then it is the owners
responsibility to arrange for this to be carried out.
All fees must be paid before the mares leaves the AI centre.
Mare owners who send a third party to collect their mare must make arrangements
to pay in advance of collection.
Stallion Fees
Stallions are taken at livery for semen collecting, processing, freezing
and sending. Prior to visiting the stud stallions have to be CEM and EVA
tested. Subsequently this can be done at the stud prior to semen collecting.
Boarding
Fees
All stallions - £15.00 (+VAT) / day
Long term borders and overwintering rates available on application.
Semen
collecting
Dummy training - £75.00 (+VAT)
Collecting fee fresh semen - £35.00 (+VAT) / collection
Collecting fee chilled semen - £45.00 (+VAT) / collection
Shipping chilled semen by Royal Mail £20.00 (+VAT) / shipping.
Seemen
freezing
Test freeze - £150.00 (+VAT)
Freezing package of 20 doses - £600.00 (+VAT)
Additional doses - £30.00 (+VAT) / dose
Veterinary
Fees
Stallions whilst on the AI centre receive every possible care, attention
and supervision. Veterinary assistance is called in when deemed necessary
and is chargeable to the owner. All stallions are staying at their owner's
risk and no responsibility can be accepted for injury, damage or loss caused
by semen collecting or any other handling from the stallion.
Miscellaneous
Charges for a range of miscellaneous items which will not apply to all stallions,
such as farriery work, worming, chilled semen delivery to Edinburgh Airport,
etc. are available on request.
All fees must be paid before the stallion leaves the AI centre.
Stallion owners who send a third party to collect their horse must make
arrangements to pay in advance of collection.
Terms and Conditions
1. Inseminations: Mares are taken at livery for insemination with
fresh, chilled or frozen semen, including semen that has been sent from
elsewhere.
2. Mare / Stallion Booking Form: All owners/agents are requested to fill in and sign our form when they bring the horse to stud. If the horse is sent with a third party the form must be completed and singed before the horse arrives.
3. Passports / Identification: It is a legal requirement that horses are accompanied to stud with their passport; we will check the identity of the horse with the passport on arrival.
4. Invoicing: The account for all keep fees and other costs incurred must be paid before the horse leaves the stud. Interim invoicing may be done at the stud's absolute discretion once the horse has been here for six weeks. Owners who send a third party to collect the horse must make arrangements to pay in advance of collection. Horses will not be allowed to leave before payment is made in full.
5. Hind Shoes: Please make sure all mares arrive at stud without hind shoes. mares with hindshoes will either have their shoes removed by the farrier on the owners expence or kept stabled for the time being at the stud .
6. Blacksmith: Stallions, mares and foals will have their feet trimmed when necessary and any costs charged to the owner's account. Any specific shoeing requirements must be notified to the stud when the horse is booked in.
7. Worming: Stallions, mares and foals will be wormed regularly and the owner charged accordingly.
8. Ultrasound rectal examination: It is the stud policy to scan all mares prior to insemination to determine the optimum time for insemination and post insemination to determine if ovulation has occured. Further scans will be carried out at 14 - 17 days post ovulation to detect pregnancy and at 28 days to check for foetal heartbeat. Be advised that there is a small but inevitable risk of rectal damage when examining horses per rectum.
9. Veterinary Assistance: Will be called in when deemed necessary by the stud and all costs will be chargeable to the owner.
10. Insurance: Scotland AI Service accepts no responsibility for visiting horses and do not carry insurance cover; it is the owners responsibility to provide their own insurance cover.
11. Stallions, mares and foals whilst at Scotland AI Service will receive every possible care, attention and supervision, but the stud accepts no responsibility whatsoever for accident, theft or disease, nor does the stud give any express or implied guarantee of success.
12. All mares are inseminated at their owners risk and no responsibility can be accepted for injury, damage or loss caused through teasing/artificial insemination of any mare.
13. Owners must accept that while their horse is at Scotland AI Service it is at their risk - no responsibility for the mare can be accepted by Scotland AI Service and all liability claims, damage, costs, loss and expense of any kind whatsoever are hereby expressly excluded.
14. Scotland AI Service reserves the right to refuse entry to the stud to any stallion, mare or foal that they consider to be an unacceptable health risk.