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Adia's new foal, who was born on August 14.
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Chicago zoo welcomes rare Grevy’s zebra filly foal

August 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2197 Views 0 Comments Zebras & asses

Lincoln Park Zoo announces the birth of a filly foal by Wester and from Adia. Grevy’s zebras are an endangered species.

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Jahzahra with her new foal.
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Out of Africa: Rare wild equid babies born in Britain

August 17, 2020August 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2750 Views 1 Comment Rare breeds, Zebras & asses

Marwell Zoo has welcomed Somali wild ass and Hartmann’s mountain zebra foals in recent days.

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Giigwanens is the first foal from the rare Ojibwe Horse breed to be born in Manitoba for many years.
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Endangered Canadian horse breed welcomes new foal

August 13, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4243 Views 0 Comments Rare breeds

There 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.

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Hopes high for diagnostic test after key cause of early pregnancy loss in mares found

August 11, 2020August 16, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2519 Views 0 Comments

“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.”

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Important cause of early pregnancy losses in mares pinpointed

August 8, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2602 Views 0 Comments

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

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Hartmann’s mountain zebra mare Wanda and her new foal, who was born at Dallas Zoo on July 23.
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Second rare zebra foal born at Dallas Zoo

August 1, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2714 Views 0 Comments

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.

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Weaning foals: Should we be letting nature take its course?

July 24, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4605 Views 0 Comments

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

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Tullis Matson and Dr Gareth Starbuck with Suffolk Punch mare ruby and her newborn filly foal.
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Sexed semen first a success for rare Suffolk Punch horse breed

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3287 Views 1 Comment Rare breeds

Specialist 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.”

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Ivermectin’s shortcomings as foal roundworm treatment explored

July 9, 2020 Mark Andrews 2128 Views 0 Comments

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.

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Mackenzie and Rogan's colt is the first Hartmann's mountain zebra foal to be born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
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Hartmann’s mountain zebra colt’s birth a first for Smithsonian

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2464 Views 1 Comment Zebras & asses

First-time parents Mackenzie and Rogan welcome a colt foal, the first Hartmann’s mountain zebra to be born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

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Horses in the Eastern Navajo Agency of Northwestern New Mexico.
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Study reveals 32 distinct breeds among Navajo Nation horses

July 2, 2020July 5, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4419 Views 2 Comments Wild horses

Genetic tests run on 100 feral horses show a diverse population.

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Dr Rebecca Bellone of the VGL.
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Lab adds new genetic tests to aid equine breeding decisions

June 18, 2020June 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2481 Views 0 Comments

Tests 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).

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Arabian Horse Society National Championships
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Findings challenge long-held assumptions about the Arabian horse

June 17, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 17105 Views 0 Comments

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

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Arab stallions appear to have edge over some other breeds in frozen semen

June 14, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3196 Views 0 Comments

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

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Sardinian Anglo-Arab horses put under the genetic microscope

June 13, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3048 Views 0 Comments

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

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Good news for the Przewalski’s horse on the long road to freedom

May 30, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4040 Views 0 Comments Przewalski's horse

Genetic analyses reveal that the wild horses reintroduced into the wilderness since 1992 do not show a decreased genetic variability, despite the small breeding populations.

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Jury still out on bacterium’s possible role in equine abortions

May 27, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2404 Views 0 Comments

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.

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Rethink of horse breeding plans urged amid Covid-19 pandemic

May 17, 2020May 18, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4605 Views 2 Comments

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.

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Italian study shows power of DNA analysis to confirm studbook accuracy

May 14, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2909 Views 0 Comments

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

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US Jockey Club puts breeding limit on the nation’s future stallions

May 11, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3362 Views 0 Comments

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

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