Horse Genetics Resources
What’s this? Only the most beautiful pipette stand anywhere, as built by Kylie! (Kylie is our Peopoly Moai 3D printer.) The horse head model is based on a scan of Still Water, a stunning 10m bronze sculpture in London. The sculptor is…
We are using a 3D printer to make some customized equipment. This beautiful thing will be part of our gel electrophoresis equipment. The tray that we are making is held by lines of interconnected supports. The printer we use – Kylie –…
Last year we started offering dog testing. This year… it’s goats! And possibly alpacas! Let your goat-breeding friends know that we will able to do goat DNA shortly. (Photo copyright 2019 R. McKelvie)
The other big project is the launch of our coat colour calculator. We will set it up to do lots of different things. The first is just being able to see which genes give which colours and patterns, so everyone can have…
Another goal for this year: we will be updating our term and conditions to make it absolutely clear that when animals are tested at our lab, everyone who contributes to that process has a right to access the results. That’s the owner,…
Practical Horse Genetics keeps growing. We have some big goals this year! The first is quality accreditation, which will be an important milestone. This process will take a lot of our attention in the first half of the year. Accreditation will let…
This breeding season we have had a lot of responsible breeders testing for Fragile Foal Syndrome (aka Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome or WFFS). Well done to those breeders. The horses we have tested are mostly Warmbloods and related breeds, but we have…
Pre-2019 testing – if you need your results before January, order and send us samples now! The laboratory will be shutting down briefly over the new year. Our last day of testing this year will be Friday December 21, and we will…
We made an interesting accidental discovery a little while ago: d1 (nd1) is extremely common in Arabian horses! A batch of Arabian horses were accidentally tested for dun/d1 (nd1) instead of CA, and when I looked at the results every single horse…
We are delighted to say that our dog testing website is up and accepting orders! We’ll start a FB page for it shortly too [watch this space]. At the moment we can test for: Shedding Coat length (L1 and L2) Coat curl…