Gene of grey horses identified
Palomino filly, will become grey. In this case the colour will change „suddenly“. If you click on the picture, you can see that the filly is nearly grey underneath the overcoat it was born with. Some ponies turn grey much later, when they are way over 10 years of age. The coat colour stays similar to the colour at birth, and is replaced by more and more grey speckles.
Researchers decrypt the genetic makeup part, that is responsible for the white coat colour
Swedish researchers, the scientists around Leif Andersson at the University of Uppsala, have identified the gene mutation, that it s responsible for the white coat colour of grey horses. This mutation, called “greying with age” has an influence on four genes, which work with the pigment cells, the socalled melanocytes. This mutation is the same in all grey horses. This suggests, that all those ponieshave the same ancestors.
In 75% of all horses aged over 15 years this mutation initiates, beside the loss of the coat colour, the development of benign dermatological tumours. These so called melanoma can partially develop into manign tumours. This genetic mutation is a socalled regulatory mutation.
Different to mutations, that actually cause a change to the structure of a genetic product - most times a protein - this mutation changes simply the rate, with which certain proteins are produced.
Grey poniesfascinated humans already thousands of years ago, which supported the distribution.
Source: 21.07.2008 - Biologie/ddp/wissenschaft.de – Uwe Thomanek
A website about colour inheritance in horses:
www.farbvererbung.de
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Health Check for Stallions
The ICCPS decided on their last meeting in March 2008 that there should be a uniform health check for stallions in the future. Independent from the actual registration, stallions have to be examined by a veterinarian, who takes down the results in a standardised form. This is an attempt to reveal genetic defects in due time. The vet should take down, for example, teeth, which are out of position, or if the stallion has summer itch. This form can be downloaded as pdf here:
iccps2008veterinarystallionassessment.doc [52 KB]
At what stage the health check will be implemented bindingly you can learn here or at your breeding society.
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Connemara Pony Breeding Resources
click on picture to enter! Welcome to the CPBS database.
click on picture to enter! Welcome to the CPBS database.
Are you looking for dates and ancestry of a certain pony?
Are you looking for information and offspring of a certain pony?
Are you looking for information of ponies of a certain breeder?
Calculate the coefficient of line-breeding (and respectively in-breeding) factors with the Wright Methode. The CPBS of Ireland has put its own website online just for this reason:
www.connemara-pony.com
We recommend to use Internetexplorer as Mozilla Firefox does not work with this website.
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Pedigrees on the Internet
For everybody who wants to know more about the ancestry of their pony: on the website www.allbreedpedigree.com you can look through the name of your pony for its ancestry. The service is free for the ancestry search; if you want to have pictures or more details on your pony you have to register on the website!
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DNA-Examination
Click here [27 KB]
[27 KB] for the AGP-Newsletter of the FN (German Equestrian Association) from October 2005.
Since 2005 it is compulsory for Connemara foals to check the ancestry through a DNA test.
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BEC-Test
Some people know, of course, that it is possible to examine Connemaras for the brightening gene, that is responsible for BEC-foals, when it comes from both parental animals.
With grey ponies it is often not known what colour they had when they were born, and so it is also not known if this animal possibly got the brightening gene and can therefore pass it on to its offspring. Often allegedly bay or black horses have identified themselves as actual duns, after a BEC-foal was born.
Who does not want this risk in their breeding can get their pony checked via a blood analysis. So far this was only possible in France, for about € 30 at:
Labogena Domaine de Vilvert
78352 Jouy en Josas Cedex
France
Tel.: 01 34 65 21 -38 / -39
Fax: 01 34 65 21 51
eMail: labogena@jouy.inra.fr
In the mean time there are also laboratories in Germany that offer checks for the BEC-gene for about € 20 to € 30.
Which kind of material you have to send in, you get to know right at the laboratory.
www.certagen.de/cream_de.html
www.genecontrol.de/main.html This link is from Grub. Some breeding societies post the material for the ancestries gene examination to this place. You can instruct them to do a colour check at the same time!
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Prefix registration at the FN ( equestrian assoc.)
Registration of a prefix or a suffix
A word placed in front of the name of the pony is called prefix, a word placed behind the name of the horse is called suffix; this word can have the length of at least 3 letters and 20 letters at the most. It is supposed to refer to a breeding place or a breeder. Initials or apostrophes are rejected from the Central Prefix Registry. The prefix can only comprise of one word! Exception with the suffix: preceding word like, for example “von der…”, “van der…” are allowed. The addition “of” is rejected by the Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung FN (German Equestrian Association). The prefix/suffix is a component of the name of every horse or pony of the breeder, who is registrated as such with the FN. This with the FN at the Central Prefix Registry (CPR) registrated prefix/suffix is exempted from the scale of fees for advertising names and name affixes at the competition horse registration.
Attention: this only applies to ponies and horses, who have been bred by the prefix/suffix owner himself. The prefix- and respectively the suffix owner and the breeder in the breeding certificate have to be the same by name.
Registration fee:
• basic fee: €65 • plus personal fee €10 each additional person per prefix/suffix • plus postage/packing and VAT.
For example: if two people breed jointly with one prefix/suffix, they have to pay €75 plus postage/packing and VAT.
If a prefix/suffix is changed subsequently, or should be used jointly used by another person, or retires one user, a changing fee of €30 plus postage/packing and VAT has to be paid for the changing and new issuance of the registration certificate. This rule applies exclusively for the following pony and horse breeds, according to the arrangement of the breeding association:
• Connemara Pony
• Dartmoor Pony • German Riding Pony • Exmoor Pony • Fell Pony • Fjord Horse • Haflinger • Highland Pony • Iceland Pony
• New Forest Pony • Shetland Pony (all Types) • Welsh Pony (all Sections)
Source: http://www.pferd-aktuell.de/Doc-..16585/doc.htm Taken on: February 17th, 2008
Download the pdf to apply for a prefix/suffix at the FN [65 KB]
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