Breeding Information Questionnaire   

1.   Do you offer and discounts?  
We do offer multiple mare discounts.   On some of our stallions, we even offer special considerations to proven producers or proven show mares.  

  2.  What kind of care will my mare receive while at the farm?  
At Gene Parker Farms, we take great pride in our facility, our staff and our conception rates.   Your mare will be given the best of care while at our farm.   You can have your mare housed in the mare motel, the show barn or our pastures.   In the mare motel, your mare receives daily turnout in individual pens or small congenial groups.    In the show barn, your mare is in a heated barn and groomed and exercised daily.    Our pastures are over seeded with winter rye giving mares plenty of green grass to eat year round.   They are also given free choice alfalfa hay and grained every other day.   The choice is yours.   

3.   What do you charge for mare care?  
In the mare motel, we charge $12.00 per day for dry mares (no foals) and $14.00 per day for wet mares (with foals).   All mares with foals are kept here.   In the show barn,  we charge $16.00 per day and for pastures with shelters,  we charge $8.00 per day.   

4.   Do you foal out mares and what do you charge?  
Yes, we do.   We charge $250.00 to foal out mares.   This fee includes foaling, navel treatment on your new foal, pain management for your mare and 2 standard flushings on day 3-4 post foaling to prepare your mare to be re-bred.   Any subsequent flushes are at an additional fee depending on antibiotics used.   

5.   Do all of your stallions ship well?  
Not all stallions ship equally well.    Semen quality differs from stallion to stallion.    Fortunately, we have all the current technologies, centrifuges and many different types of extenders to help each individual stallion's shipping potential.    We also use the services of Dr. Paul Loomis, founder of Select Breeders Services to help with semen evaluations and advise us on stallions with cooling problems.   

6.   What days do you collect your stallions?
We collect our stallions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.   Our breeding season begins on February 1st and ends on July 1st.   

7.   Do you offer ship semen receiving too?  
Yes.   You can bring your mare here to our farm and have her bred to a stallion other than the ones that we stand.    We do the complete process for you....staging your mare, ordering semen, the insemination and pregnancy checks.   

8.   What do you charge for this service?  
We charge $150.00 for shipped semen receiving.   

9.   What happens if my mare doesn't settle?  
If your mare does not settle in 2006.   You can rebreed her for no additional costs other than your shipping, in 2007.   You may substitute another mare for the rebreed if you choose.   Our goal is to make sure you end up with that special foal!

If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to contact us.