MANY of our clients with barren and maiden mares are anxious to get their mares covered as early as possible after February 14th but become very frustrated when the mares have not cycled properly until well into March and in some cases early April.

Their frustration leads to phone calls to me to provide a quick fix to get the mare to produce a follicle to enable her to be covered. My first question is have the mares been exposed to light therapy since middle of the previous November?