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You can pull every 5 days, and then flush once. What I do is pull the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st. Then I flush the 26th. That gives me enough time, if I choose, to use all eggs that season. This gives you a minimum of 13 eggs, and a maximum of 19 eggs, depending on how many eggs the mass flush (between 8-14) gives you at the end. But each time you pull, you get one egg.

@SpryOfJune @FallenShadows714 @Maribo thankyou so much. I think I'll have to set it on my calendar. Is it a time consuming thing to do? Also when pulling eggs, can you continue to GMT the mare? If so do they have the Gene's at the time of pulling, or the most recent?

I don’t believe you are able to GMT or RGS a mare after you have pulled eggs. Same if you pull straws from a stallion. That said, I know I used to have some embryos made with straws or live cover from a stallion i later turned into a mare, so could no longer implant the embryos. So I think the system may not be totally fool proof.

Something that I do to save time finding the correct mares is put a space at the front of the name of the mares that I pull eggs from, that way they appear at the top of the list when you can pull eggs. Any mares that are in the waiting period after pulling an egg will be at the bottom of the list with the number of days to the next egg pull in parentheses after the number of eggs already in the freezer.

One thing I have noticed is if you do a mass flush at the end of the season, the mare is reset at the monthly rollover and you can pull eggs again on the 1st. If you pull a single egg at the end of the season, she is not reset and you will have to wait the usual 5 days before you can pull another egg.

Ah! Yes, the sex change must have been the part I was thinking about. I knew there was something. :-??

Definately!