qtrmoonfarm
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Hi Everyone!
We have an urgent need for more hair samples from any of the following LP-breeds:
Appaloosa
British Spotted Pony
Knabstrupper
Pony of the Americas
... as well as appaloosa-patterned Miniature Horses or Spanish Mustangs.
Horses sampled may have homozygous (LP/LP), heterozygous (LP/lp) coat patterns, or they may be true solids (lp/lp).
If you are able to mail these to us within the next two weeks, please email me at:
[SIZE=14pt][email protected] [/SIZE]
I will need to check the pedigrees of each horse to be sampled, in order to make sure they are not closely related to each other. This means if you have a number of inter-related animals, you may be only able to send in one or two samples. That's okay, as we greatly need these, so even one sample from you could help us a lot!
Thanks so much!
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We are currently working hard to identify LP, the main gene responsible for appaloosa patterning and related traits. I cannot release any details about the progress we have made just yet. What I can tell you is that we have advanced to the point where, in order to proceed further, we need a large number of samples from unrelated horses. This is an exciting stage in our work, and we are very hopeful that many breeders will help us out!
What info do you need included with the samples?
We need basic identification information for the horse, a photograph, and pedigree including the sire/dam/grandsires/granddams. Anyone who emails me privately offering to send in samples will be sent sample identification forms on which to put this information, and mail in with the hair samples.
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Speaking of color genetic advances the CHAMPAGNE gene test has also been perfected and tested, papers to be published soon! That means a commerical test might be just around the corner! Our horses were part of the study and all confirmed to be champagne by the test..so many advances in genetics this year, exciting times for the horse world!
We have an urgent need for more hair samples from any of the following LP-breeds:
Appaloosa
British Spotted Pony
Knabstrupper
Pony of the Americas
... as well as appaloosa-patterned Miniature Horses or Spanish Mustangs.
Horses sampled may have homozygous (LP/LP), heterozygous (LP/lp) coat patterns, or they may be true solids (lp/lp).
If you are able to mail these to us within the next two weeks, please email me at:
[SIZE=14pt][email protected] [/SIZE]
I will need to check the pedigrees of each horse to be sampled, in order to make sure they are not closely related to each other. This means if you have a number of inter-related animals, you may be only able to send in one or two samples. That's okay, as we greatly need these, so even one sample from you could help us a lot!
Thanks so much!
*************************************************************
We are currently working hard to identify LP, the main gene responsible for appaloosa patterning and related traits. I cannot release any details about the progress we have made just yet. What I can tell you is that we have advanced to the point where, in order to proceed further, we need a large number of samples from unrelated horses. This is an exciting stage in our work, and we are very hopeful that many breeders will help us out!
What info do you need included with the samples?
We need basic identification information for the horse, a photograph, and pedigree including the sire/dam/grandsires/granddams. Anyone who emails me privately offering to send in samples will be sent sample identification forms on which to put this information, and mail in with the hair samples.
*******************************************************************
Speaking of color genetic advances the CHAMPAGNE gene test has also been perfected and tested, papers to be published soon! That means a commerical test might be just around the corner! Our horses were part of the study and all confirmed to be champagne by the test..so many advances in genetics this year, exciting times for the horse world!
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