Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services

Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services is another service available on-property at ‘Tamarang’. Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services is an equine breeding centre with its own resident veterinary experts.

Our highly qualified veterinarians Dr John Chopin and Dr Jim Rodger are the only two registered equine reproduction specialists in practice in New South Wales.

Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services provides the finest breeding services and on-hand personal attention for your mares including:

• Full time veterinarian based at ‘Tamarang’
• Outside mares welcome for artificial insemination to fresh or frozen semen from Tamarang stallions and outside stallions
• Embryo transfer both to Tamarang stallions and outside stallions
• Embryo transfer set up of donor and recipient mares for outside veterinarians
• Recipient mare set up and lease
• Specialist treatment for problem mares
• Stallion evaluation
• Semen freezing

 
Please contact Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services on 0428 698 274 to book for the 2011/2012 breeding season. Our price list and contracts are also available on request at this number.

Click on the link below to view the Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services flyer.

TVBS Flyer (146 KB)

Press play below to watch a short video about Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services.

Meet our Expert Veterinarians

John Chopin

John B Chopin
BVSc MACVSc (Equine Medicine) PhD FACVSc (Equine Reproduction)

Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services welcomes John as our new Resident Veterinarian.

John grew up and was educated in Queensland. After time in mixed practice he completed a residency in equine medicine and surgery at the University of Queensland. Following that he completed his PhD at the University of Queensland using frozen horse semen and ovulating drugs with the wonderful horses of the then Queensland Veterinary School Australian Stockhorse Stud.

He moved to the world famous Oakey Practice of the Drs Pascoe and completed a residency in equine reproduction. After completing this he joined the premier Thoroughbred stud Coolmore Australia, the Australian home of horses such as Danehill, Encosta De Lago, Fastnet Rock, Choisir, Haradasun and High Chaparral for the last 7 years as a specialist in equine reproduction.

John has also spent time teaching veterinary undergraduate and postgraduate students in Australia and USA. John has published research articles for international journals, contributed to textbooks and lay magazines. John has been an invited speaker for both national and international conferences. In quiet moments John likes to watch the odd soccer game.
 

Jim Rodger

J.A.Rodger
BVMS, MRCVS, MACVSc (Equine Medicine) FACVSc(Equine Reproduction)

Jim Rodger is a co-director and Consulting Veterinarian for Tamarang Veterinary Breeding Services. Jim graduated from Veterinary School at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and brings a wealth of education, knowledge and experience to the Tamarang team.

Jim established the Equine Reproduction practice at Jerry’s Plains. The practice runs a clinical research programme and this has resulted in a number of publications both locally and internationally. Jim regularly speaks at continuing education meetings and is also currently tutoring the Distance Education course for the Centre for Veterinary Education at Sydney University

It’s the professional, passionate and personal approach of our veterinarians that sets us apart!