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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I had my mare bred last year. Received a letter that she needed to be DNA typed due to age before the foal can be registered.
Can someone explain this to me? She’s 13 this year so I don’t see what age has to do with it.
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| It’s my understanding that all horses registered with AQHA today are DNA’d. We just sent the kit in on a 4 yr old we bought on an application for papers and another friend sent one on a foal she had last spring.
To prove the foal is out of your mare, they need her DNA on file too. We have an older mare bred right now and I’m guessing to register her foal we may have to go through the same process, it’s been a few years since she’s had a foal and I’m not sure how long they’ve been requiring the DNA. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | OhMax - 2018-01-17 9:21 PM
It’s my understanding that all horses registered with AQHA today are DNA’d. We just sent the kit in on a 4 yr old we bought on an application for papers and another friend sent one on a foal she had last spring.
To prove the foal is out of your mare, they need her DNA on file too. We have an older mare bred right now and I’m guessing to register her foal we may have to go through the same process, it’s been a few years since she’s had a foal and I’m not sure how long they’ve been requiring the DNA.
So will I have to do one on the foal too? I don’t mind doing it but wanted to make sure she wasn’t like randomly selected or if they had another reason for doing it. |
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| Call AQHA and have them send you a DNA kit. It costs about $65. May have gone up. Be sure you check PARENTAGE VERIFIED. Pull tail hairs anbe sure that you get the follicle (root). The kit tells you how many hairs you need. Follow the instructions for preparing the hairs on sticky part and mailing. You will do the foal the same way. It is very simple. |
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Location: Madill Ok | Any foal was produced with shipped semen or frozen semen or embryo you will need to DNA foal in order to get papers. If not any of the above you wont need to test, but then when you breed this foal later you will need DNA test before you can register its foals. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Joleen - 2018-01-18 9:03 AM
Any foal was produced with shipped semen or frozen semen or embryo you will need to DNA foal in order to get papers. If not any of the above you wont need to test, but then when you breed this foal later you will need DNA test before you can register its foals.
I saw where it said that but she was live covered. |
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| Any horse that now has a "child" has to be dna'd. the foal does not but all parents have to have dna on file or you cant register. if its a boy and he's gelded, never have to dna, if its a mare and never is bred, don't have to dna. eventually they will probably move to dna on everything but haven't yet. the prices did go up on jan 1 as did a lot of their prices.
the age limit was because they started doing i want to say 10 or 15 years ago, so your mare is young enough she fell in that time frame, so for example anything born prior to 2000 would not have to be dna'd as dam now but anything after would be. thats just an example i don't remember the exact year. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | As others have said, all breeding animals have to have DNA on file.
If the foal you are registering was a live cover or on farm A-I conception you do not have to get them DNA/PV'd. If they are conceived by shipped semen of any kind or they are an ET, they have to be parentage verified.
If you have a mare or stallion that was never PV'd and they are now being used for a breeding animal they have to have DNA/PV records before you can register any babies. |
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