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Or else get a copy of "Blessed are the Broodmares" and then this bulletin board won't seem so bad! :lol:

Actually, if you review the linked page you included, you will see that the regulations related to Andalusians are less restrictive, rather than more so.

While pre-export testing (swabbing) of...

Actually, although it is important to deworm the day of foaling - after foaling being preferable - and although it does reduce the incidence of "foal heat" scours and kill threadworms (strongyloides...

Actually Ilona, if you look at my post, you will note that it was not you that I quoted or was referencing. Additionally, it was never my intention to make anyone feel stupid - something that I...

A small technical correction, but as it leads to much confusion with some people, it is an important one (although not specifically relative to transporting a horse).

By seven months, the mare is...

Siegi:

As previously noted, I have no connection or involvement with the NASHF, although I was at one of inaugural meetings, but have not been present or involved in any discussions since.

My...

Nothing to do with me whatsoever. I am actually a little puzzled as to why you thought it might be!

There is no doubt that North American sport horse registries require something to make them more...

Make sure you don't overdo it - we know she's not stable when sober, and I can't abide the thought of having to run around for her again when she's broken something else this year if you get her...

You're kind of in-between on blood-test timing. Reliably testing for eCG is past (days 40-90, ideal 45-75 days) while it is still a little early to test for estrogens - levels start to rise somewhere...

At 120 days the fetus is about the size of a large rat. Even with two of them in there, it's not going to make a significant difference to the girth of the mare! :-)

There's no point in having the...

A word of caution to you before doing anything drastic like selling her or performing an endometrial culture or biopsy...

At 150 days, progesterone levels should be around zero. As I'm guessing...

I'm looking at it from the commercial aspect, not that of preservation.

World Cup or Olympic horse. Already has 3 tanks of semen frozen. Stallion is now aged and infertile, but foals are doing...

Ahh... but what if the donor stallion has become infertile before there are adequate doses of semen frozen and the breed registries are refusing to record clones in any way?

NOW there's a good...

Agreed, and it's symptomatic of why the Australian Jockey Club's research several years ago found that introducing AI would actually diversify the increasingly dwindling genetics of the thoroughbred....

Thoroughbred mares bred to the top-name stallions are probably the most tightly managed category of mares currently being bred in the world. At the major studs, ALL mares are palpated and/or...

We'll find out next year when the courts hand down the decision on the McHugh case that's being tried in Australia right now! :)

Certainly it is an EU requirement that all horses be issued a passport, but possession of a passport does not mean that a horse is registered with a Registry. There are various non-Registry avenues...

We've deviated somewhat from the original intent of this thread, but I will quickly give my thoughts on your concerns Terri, before reverting to the original programming. :)

Cloning will not...

I don't particularly see any legal paperwork associated with saying "yes", but I can see a LOT of legal paperwork in the future connected with saying "no"!! :lol:

Really, the FEI has no...

Precisely the reason why a breed registry should record the clones rather than avoiding recordation and running the risk of having a fraudulent registration as being by the DNA donor rather than the...

Easy.



As I am in charge of a sport governing body and there has never been any indication that there would be any enhancement of competitive ability as a result of cloning, and that we...

We (Equine-Reproduction.com) were fortunate enough to be able to make the first announcement to the world of the cloned mules, as well as being able to produce an early follow-up article (which can...

OK Tom - I'll play a bit of Devil's Advocate with this one and throw in some different viewpoints for your consideration! :D



But surely, if we had a class with just 6 identical cloned horses...

Placentitis - which by definition is inflammation of the placenta - may be single instance or repetitious depending upon base cause.

The most likely cause is a bacterium - commonly Strep. equi...

For many years the hypothesis was that frozen semen conceptus' had a tendency to be smaller than fresh or cooled semen conceptus at the early pregnancy check stage. It was agreed that the size...