Equine embryo transfer - Part 3: Client and veterinary economics

The final and third part of this series will consider factors affecting cli ent and veterinary economics of equine embryo transfer. The economic data w as collected during the 1997 practitioner survey. The survey revealed that the issue of cost versus yield for this technique may be ameliorated if the practitioner carefully considers the donor mare selection, the recipient s ource, and the embryo transfer technique. For the client attain maximal eco nomic benefit, this technique should be used in fertile mares over 2 years of age that are of a breed that registers embryo transfer foals. for the ve terinarian to incur the least amount of financial and temporal investment i n this procedure, he/she should set up an embryo recovery and chilled trans port unit. To reduce both client and veterinary financial and temporal inve stment in a practice offering complete embryo transfer services, perfecting the nonsurgical embryo transfer technique would be advantageous. Thus, the re are economically feasible avenues for both the client and the veterinari an to benefit from equine embryo transfer in practice.