Horse Genetics Resources
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…
Homozygous, along with her friend heterozygous, are (as far as I can tell) jargon developed purely with the aim of making genetics seem hard. Let explain what homozygous means for mammals – that includes us and all our hairy companions. Homozygous: both…
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…
Not all foals get a name as soon as they pop out. To keep their paperwork clear and unambiguous we recommend referring to un-named foals in the following way: Mare’s name-year-sex For example if your mare Caramel Kisses has a colt this…
HYPP is another one of the 5 tests in the 5-panel. The 5-panel is relevant to Quarter Horses, Paints, Appaloosas, Quarter Ponies and any other breeds with some Quarter Horse bloodlines. HYPP is only found in the descendants of Impressive, an American…
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…
HERDA is one of the 5 tests in the 5-panel. It is useful for Quarter Horses, Paints, Appaloosas, Quarter Ponies and any other breeds with some Quarter Horse bloodlines. Horses with two copies of the HERDA gene have extremely fragile skin, particularly…
I love seeing all the ideas that come in for our mystery coloured horses! This time most of you went the same way as me and thought it might be some sort of splashed white gene. It’s not! This stallion is Coralvale…