Dr. Eric Osterholm and West Coast Equine, owned and operated by Jenny Sherbo  together offer one of the finest breeding facilities in Central California at the Sliding J Ranch.  Mare owners can choose from well groomed pastures, individual 14x36 partially covered outside corrals, or 12x24 stalls in a fully enclosed mare barn and 24-hour video and monitored large foaling stalls to insure the comfort and safety of mares and babies.

Our experienced staff, resident veterinarian and fully equipped lab allow us to ship cooled and frozen semen from all our stallions all over the world. Likewise, we are able to receive cooled and frozen semen in a timely manner from any non-resident stallion. Timing is so critical for both, and we have easy access to whatever form of transportation is necessary to insure that semen is delivered and received in the optimal time frame.

Other services available are embryo transfer, phantom training for stallions, semen evaluation, semen freezing and storage, lay-ups, year round boarding, care and boarding for retirees, and training. Year round board and retirement costs vary from $200.00 to $450.00 per month depending on where the horses are kept and the kind of exercise they need.

Our resident veterinarian, Dr. Eric Osterholm is available 24 hours for all reproductive needs. Dr. Osterholm has had twenty-four years of equine reproduction experience working with many cutting, reining, and sport horse breeding farms in Southern and Northern California. For the last ten years he has been heavily involved in embryo transfer, processing and handling frozen and chilled semen and artificial insemination. He has been the attending veterinarian for the International Sport Horse Registry for the 100 Day Stallion Testing on three different occasions. Dr. Osterholm’s primary lab is at Sliding J Ranch.  He can be reached at (209) 334-4247 for any questions about reproduction management.