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HI,

does anybody know how to go about DNA testing?
Is it possible to take a blood sample from my filly who's mother was by Pouchka III. I had the mare on loan to breed my filly and originally she did have french papers but the owner misplaced them and can't find them. I would like to prove the bloodlines and wonder whether DNA would be the way to go??
Or any other suggestions??
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The studbook that the mare is associated with should have a DNA sample on file. You will just have to have your mare tested, usually just involves pulling a few tail hairs and have them matched.

Thats the way it is with IDs anyway
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Second that, all you need to do is get in touch with the mares breed society and then send them hairs from your filly's mane and tail.
Good luck,.
 
When I had Betty DNAed to her parents it was £40 per horse (ie £40 for Betty - £40 for Barry) and £60 for the passport plus the cost of the vet to take the samples from each (which were in different locations so different vets!)
 
Thank you everybody for the answers but the problem is the mare was bought in a sale so do not know which stud she was bred from. The owner says the papers were all in french and she does not remember the dam's name, just that the father is Pouchka III and her half sister is Di Lampards Equity.
She was registered with the BSJA as she used to compete at affiliated level prior to her injury, but when I contacted them, they said they only had her registered under an English name and all the paperwork was archived now, so not much of a chance to follow that path. It is so frustrating.
 
You should be able to tell if she is related to Pouchka III he stood at Alvescot Stud so they may have some info.

Mr. Stephen Hobbs
Alvescot Stud
Alvescot Field Farm
Carterton
OXON
OX18 1PD
Great Britain

Tel 01993 840044
 
With horses this cannot be done, see this recent thread for the reasons
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=403696


What is being talked about in the post above is particular DNA testing used to establish roots of ancient populations NOT immediate parentage testing. With immediate relationships you need to directly compare possible parents or it can be used to establish a close relationship from a common recent ancestor.

Because maternal (Mitochondrial) DNA and the Y Short Tandem Repeat from Males are very slow to change compared to normal DNA inherited on reproduction, they can be used to look way back in the past for common ancestry. Though females cannot inherit Y STR you can get details of a females paternal line by using the Y STR test on a close male relative ideally a brother!

But as I said in the post none of this is relevant because of the way parentage testing is used in horses, You need to know the names or possible names of the parents.
 
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