InFoal, Inc.

Leaders in equine embryo transfer, embryo freezing, ICSI and IVF (Invitro Fertilization). Dr. Beck was born and raised on a cattle ranch in Deer Lodge, Montana.
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After attending pre-vet at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, he went to veterinary school at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Upon graduation, Dr. Beck moved to California where there was green grass and blue skies and a climate more conducive to year-round equine reproduction. In 1987, he moved to Hemet, and in 1990 purchased 10 acres in Diamond Valley to began buil

ding Winners Circle Equine Clinic. The first lab in 2006 was just the beginning of our tireless effort to improve our equipment and technique. After two years we produced Adam, our first live ICSI foal, and Eve followed the year after. Last year we successfully produced 49 pregnancies and 45 frozen ICSI embryos. Recently, a complete remodeling of the original hospital has been accomplished. Our current laboratory, with newer and more reliable equipment, allows us to complete the entire process from follicle aspiration, searching, holding and maturing to the actual ICSI, culturing and embryo transfer all within the same building. Our quarantine barn, the latest addition, is USDA approved for animal export as well as quarantine for semen and embryo export. The mare barn has 46 stalls under lights for preparing both recipient mares and client mares for an early breeding season. In 2006, InFoal,Inc. was separated from Winners Circle Equine Clinic, to provide a separate base of action and specialized focus strictly on equine reproduction.

03/20/2024

Congratulations Rick Giles!! Streakin Six, born yesterday, out of BC Sassy Dash - beautiful filly! 👏👏👏

10/08/2023

We are excited to announce the addition of Sheila Teague as head of our research staff at InFoal, Inc! Many of you know Sheila from her 17 years working with the Equine Reproduction department Texas A&M. Her experience with professionals, academics and horsemen allows her to bring technical research into real world application.
In the fast moving world of equine reproduction, with Sheila’s help, we can pursue Invitro Fertilization, oocyte freezing and other developing technologies.

02/24/2023

Dr. Rick Beck and Dan Darling Purchase Remaining Semen On Hall of Fame Sires

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Videos

Monozygotic twins

Twins in horses normally occur when the mare double ovulates and both eggs become fertilized. These embryos enter the uterus at about 5.5 days post fertilization, form two embryonic vesicles(black circles which may be detected on ultrasound - one of which can be crushed) , and will implant at about 16 days forming two placentas. Monozygotic twins, however, form when a single embryo splits and forms two identical twins. These twins develop inside a single placenta and are much more difficult to detect until the heartbeat is present at about day 25. This video clip illustrates two identical twins that developed from the splitting on an ICSI embryo after it was transferred into the recipient mare. As the video plays, you can see the heartbeats first in the large white mass on the right side of the screen, then as the other white mass in the center, then back to the one on the right. Though these are extremely rare, this is the fourth case we have had in the last 10 years that have developed from ICSI embros. Other equine ICSI facilities have reported a similar incidence, and the occurance of monozygotic twins in human ICSI pregnancies is even more common.

A beautiful mature blastocyst (embryo) from Signe Olsby's mare Fortuna injected with a sperm cell from her stallion Jonkheer Z. this is the NINTH embryo from this single aspiration of 18 eggs, a record for us.

Transvaginal ultrasound guided aspiration of immature follicles in the mare allows collection of many oocytes (eggs) for ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection).