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Warning - this may seem like a very stupid question...

On my mare's passport (German Warmblood), it shows that she was DNA tested to prove that her dam/sire were in fact her dam/sire.

Does this always get done even with other Warmbloods? So if you have a foal, how would you DNA test it to prove the dam/sire is in fact the dam/sire? Is there some sort of national DNA horse databank or something???
 
My friend wanted to register her welsh sec a so had to obtain some tail hair (pulled out from the root) from the pony and the alleged sire and dam to send off to be dna tested to prove she was who she said she was. I suppose it is done when there is doubt over who was the sire or dam.
 
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But wouldn't that leave quite a few stallions without a tail??? :shocked
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Warning - this may seem like a very stupid question...

On my mare's passport (German Warmblood), it shows that she was DNA tested to prove that her dam/sire were in fact her dam/sire.

Does this always get done even with other Warmbloods? So if you have a foal, how would you DNA test it to prove the dam/sire is in fact the dam/sire? Is there some sort of national DNA horse databank or something???

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DNA records are held for the studbooks at AHT in Newmarket. If DNA records are required from abroad (usually becuasse the foal has been conceived using imported frozen / chilled semen) the AHT gets the data for cross-checking through officially established routes / organisations in each country.

Only one DNA sample is ever needed for a stallion and this is kept on file and checked against that of the foal and dam (supplied each time) to prove parentage.

Most wb studbooks -- and others -- require DNA testing as proof of parentage but it is not mandatory and passport legislation (even the latest due to come in on 1 July) does not require it for proof of pedigree when issuing a passport including a verified pedigree. The method of preffered parentage testing is the choice of the studbook -- although obviously DNA testing by hair sample is by far the best and most accurate that we have ATM.
 
DNA parentage testing from hair samples is compulsory for Hanoverian purebred foals and costs £18-20 and has been for several years. The samples from the UK are processed in Germany.
 
All breeding stock in Quarter Horses are also DNA's before progeny can be registered. This also has been done for several years, I believe to horses from late 80's.

It is administered from AQHA in America.
 
The stallion, like the dam and foal would only ever need one DNA test each like other horses so no worries about bald tails. The results would then be held with the elevant breed societies for future use.
 
Like the Quarter Horses all breeding stock of the Appaloosa Horse Club must be DNA tested. Also all foals resulting from artificial insemination and embryo transfer must be tested and parentage proven prior to registration.

Our testing is done by a lab in the USA (hair root) and costs $50. Though TB's and I think testing by the AHT is done by blood sample.

In addition the DNA of any animal from an approved breed such (TB's QH's and Arabians) must also have their DNA on file with the ApHC.

DNA parentage testing is standard across the industry and my TB mares records were faxed to the ApHC in the USA and the ApHCC in Canada by Weatherby's on request.
 
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