Chicago zoo welcomes rare Grevy’s zebra filly foal
Lincoln Park Zoo announces the birth of a filly foal by Wester and from Adia. Grevy’s zebras are an endangered species.
Read moreLincoln Park Zoo announces the birth of a filly foal by Wester and from Adia. Grevy’s zebras are an endangered species.
Read moreMarwell Zoo has welcomed Somali wild ass and Hartmann’s mountain zebra foals in recent days.
Read moreThere are fewer than 200 Ojibwe Horses, or Lac La Croix Indian Pony, left in the world. The arrival of a filly foal in Manitoba is cause for celebration.
Read more“These findings will allow researchers to develop new diagnostic tests for pregnancy losses, which would offer hope to thousands of owners of breeding mares that suffer this condition.”
Read moreThe cause of early pregnancy loss in 21.8% of the cases examined in the study was identified in DNA testing.
Read moreHartmann’s mountain zebra mare Wanda, a recent arrival from California, has produced the second foal of the species to be born at Dallas Zoo.
Read moreStudy reveals major benefits in letting mares and their foals sort out the weaning themselves.
Read moreSpecialist equipment used for the first time to aid the survival of a rare equine breed: “The most effective way of increasing the population size of this very rare breed is by increasing the number of fillies being born.”
Read moreResearchers in Poland studied 225 foals from seven stud farms, and found that ivermectin was not as effective as expected for reducing parascaris fecal egg counts.
Read moreFirst-time parents Mackenzie and Rogan welcome a colt foal, the first Hartmann’s mountain zebra to be born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
Read moreGenetic tests run on 100 feral horses show a diverse population.
Read moreTests for Equine familial isolated hypocalcemia (EFIH), previously termed idiopathic hypocalcemia, and Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) are now available at UC Davis’s Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL).
Read moreGlobal genetic diversity is good, but that is not necessarily the case within important subgroups.
Read moreFrozen semen put to the test in horse study in Austria.
Read moreResearchers found almost 100% correlation between the genetic data they analyzed and the pedigree information for this Italian sport-horse breed.
Read moreGenetic analyses reveal that the wild horses reintroduced into the wilderness since 1992 do not show a decreased genetic variability, despite the small breeding populations.
Read moreCoxiella burnetii causes a disease known as coxiellosis in humans and a range of animals, although it is most commonly called Q fever in humans.
Read moreThe Humane Society of the United States is funding more than $100,000 in grants to equine rescues, whilst calling for horse breeders to show restraint in anticipation of an economic downturn because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more“A studbook is not always error-free, therefore mitochondrial DNA analysis can provide genetic information about the maternal lines.”
Read moreThe move is aimed to maintain diversity in the Thoroughbred gene pool.
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