HOW much is it to lease a recipient mare? What should you look for if you want to buy one yourself? Is just any mare suitable to be a surrogate mare?

Hans Hurkmans, specialises in embryo transplantation and ICSI in horses and cattle. He has a donor station and an IVF lab and transplants numerous embryos in recipient mares. For ‘fresh’ embryos only just flushed, or embryos grown in the lab, he works together with four companies that lease a total of 450 to 500 recipient mares.