Breeding

“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.”

The cause of early pregnancy loss in 21.8% of the cases examined in the study was identified in DNA testing.

Hartmann’s mountain zebra mare Wanda, a recent arrival from California, has produced the second foal of the species to be born at Dallas Zoo.

Study reveals major benefits in letting mares and their foals sort out the weaning themselves.

Researchers 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.

Global genetic diversity is good, but that is not necessarily the case within important subgroups.

Frozen semen put to the test in horse study in Austria.

Researchers found almost 100% correlation between the genetic data they analyzed and the pedigree information for this Italian sport-horse breed.

Coxiella burnetii causes a disease known as coxiellosis in humans and a range of animals, although it is most commonly called Q fever in humans.

The 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.

“A studbook is not always error-free, therefore mitochondrial DNA analysis can provide genetic information about the maternal lines.”

The move is aimed to maintain diversity in the Thoroughbred gene pool.