Texas Veterinary Medical Association
and a member of the American
Association of Equine Practitioners
and the American Veterinary Medical
Association.
Not only does Dr. Synowsky have
a passion for veterinary medicine,
but also for his community and the
people in it. In 2017, he was elected
the first mayor of Dennis. It’s a posi-
tion that he got into not because he
loves politics, but because he was
one of the founding members to have
it incorporated.
“I was part of the group that
started the push to incorporate and
provide some protection for us. When
it came down to it, it was a matter
of being part of it from the ground
up and in all those meetings to make
sure that we got off on the best spot
possible and lay the ground work and
foundation to go forward and grow,”
he said.
Growth is something that
Champion Embryo Transfer Services
has experienced in the past year with
new clients’ high success rates with
pregnancies, something that is easy to
see as he looks out from his office.
“It’s easy in our business to see
if we have success or not. We either
have pregnancies or we don’t,” he
said with a laugh.
Dr. Synowsky finds that those
pregnancies and the births of the foals
are the most rewarding thing about
his profession.
“I would say every time I do an
11-day pregnancy check and I see a
pregnancy, it’s always a good feel-
ing. The most rewarding part is actu-
ally foaling out mares and delivering
a new baby, but it’s also the most
exhausting part of the job. They
usually foal out late at night, like
what happened one night at 1:30,” he
said.
For him, those long hours are, at
times, the most difficult part of his
job.
“My dedication to making sure
everything is done as well as we can
do it means I’m up here a lot and I
have a lot of long days. There are a
lot of nights, and if my wife wants to
spend the evenings with me, she will
have to come hang out at the clinic
with me,” he explained.
From the business end, Dr.
Synowsky also has a unique pay
structure from a lot of reproduction
firms.
“It’s not uncommon in this day
and age for companies in the repro-
duction industry to view their clients
as numbers and present huge bills, to
charge big for every small aspect of
equine care without the backing of
a strong success rate,” Dr. Synowsky
said. “That’s not us.”
He offers cycle management
programs to make the client’s fee
schedule and billing as easy to under-
stand as possible. One thing that
makes them stand out against some
of their competitors is their embryo
transfer pregnancy fee and recipi-
ent mare lease is only billed once
they see a viable pregnancy with a
heartbeat in the recipient mare. If
the transfer does not produce a preg-
nancy, there is no transfer charge.
They are also backed by his live foal
guarantee.
“Our live foal guarantee is the
best in the industry and rivals anyone
else’s live foal guarantee. If for some
reason a recipient mare does not
produce a live foal that stands and
nurses after checking her in foal with
a heartbeat, we will redo the embryo
transfer for no additional pregnancy
fee, and with no additional booking
fees, deposits or insurance policies,”
he explained.
Dr. Synowsky is excited about the
new technology in his field, stating
that with the scientific development
and success rates with intracytoplas-
mic sperm injection (ICSI) mares that
wouldn’t have a successful breeding
career will now be able to continue
breeding and produce great offspring.
“They do breeding in the lab
under a microscope and grow the
embryo there and ship it out to a
facility to be implanted in the mare,”
he explained. “It’s been happening
for a while and the success rates have
gone up dramatically over the years,
and [it] has really taken off and has
changed the game.”
To read more about Dr. Synowsky
and his work with foals and mares, go
to championets.com.
Weatherford Equine Breeding Center and
Medical Center
Continuing to be the leader in Equine Veterinary Care
W
“I grew up on a farm surrounded
by horses and cattle. A lot of the vets
that we dealt with were people that
I looked up to, and that’s just what I
decided I wanted to do.” Foland said.
The concept of WEMC originated
in 2001 when the three doctors
decided to combine their practices
and open a medical center that could
serve their local clients as well as
clients from referring veterinarians
across North Texas.
“We do anything from routine
health maintenance, like vaccinations
and worming’s, to full emergency
surgeries, colic’s, and orthopedics
and fractures and things like that,”
Foland explained. “I love working
with really good horses and being
around people that have horses…
Favorite thing, probably, is taking
horses that are injured or colicky, and
getting them turned around.”
After the Medical Center was
opened, business continued to
develop and increase, and the Center
eatherford Equine Medical
Center opened its doors in
2002. Started by Drs. Jeff Foland,
Bruce Hebbert and Justin Ritthaler,
WEMC offers an unprecedented level
of service including sports medicine,
surgery, internal medicine, podiatry,
diagnostic and regenerative medicine.
Drs. Foland, Hebbert, and Ritthaler
all grew up in ranching environ-
ments in Wyoming and Nebraska,
and all knew at an early age the were
destined to become veterinarians.
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