Ohio State ATI Equine Center Services Offered

The ATI Equine Center offers a variety of services to the public. We offer equine reproductive services such as mare management and stallion management. We also offer training services during the spring for riding horses. Please contact Amy by email at peeples.17@osu.edu or by phone at 330-698-7669 for additional information about any of our services.

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Mares staying at the Equine Center during breeding season are cared for by students with the supervision of the faculty and staff. They receive daily grooming and exercise or turn out, depending on the mare. All mares are teased daily as a part of the breeding classes.

Mares arriving for foaling are placed in our spacious foaling stalls and monitored round the clock. Night watch consists of two students who monitor the mare. The students will call a faculty or staff member when the mare's goes into labor. The faculty or staff member will be present for the delivery if any complications arise.

Fresh and cooled semen
Semen collection and evaluation
       Processing 1st dose fresh cooled shipment
        Included with collection
Additional doses for shipment per collection
Test shipping for cooled semen
       (includes collection fee)
Phantom training
        After first 30 minutes
Courier service and same day shipments
Shipping via Fed Ex or UPS

Our stallion services are available to anyone interested at any time of year. Stallions may stand the breeding season here at the Equine Center, live year round or be trailered in for collections. All breeds are welcome. Stallions living at ATI receive daily grooming and exercise from students and staff members.

We offer a test cooling for all stallions that are going to be shipping semen that season. During our test we collect and evaluate the semen. It is then extended in 10 different extenders at different semen to extender ratios and cooled. Each sample will be evaluated at 24, 48 and 72 hours. This will enable us to determine which extender is best for your stallion.

Our newest stallion service is semen freezing. The popularity of frozen semen in the U.S. has greatly increased over that past few years. Equine semen is much more fragile than other animals when it comes to processing. We take great pride in the care and thorough testing that we do on our freezing stallions. A test freeze will consist of 72 different media and cooling rates. From these results we will narrow down the top 5-10 results and re-test those again to find the best 2-3 mixtures for each horse. We use the 5 ml macro tubes for freezing. This is much more convenient at the time of insemination because it means that 1 straw is 1 breeding dose. Once we begin freezing the semen, we will prepare each of these top 2-3 until we have confirmed pregnancies. Motility doesn't always equal fertility, what looks the best post thaw may not get mares pregnant. We will be able to test breed one of our mares to confirm that pregnancy will result from this semen.