A Sept. 25 fire at Velocity Farms near Benton, La., killed 12 horses, including Deerhound, sire of Thoroughbred champion Countess Diana. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Shanna Berry, who co-owns the farm with Sandi Blackburn, said
A clone of champion show jumper Gem Twist is the newest addition to the stable of horses cloned by Cryozootech, a French company that banks equine genetic material. The company announced the clone’s birth Sept. 15.
Gem Twist, a grey
Four speakers discussed advances in assisted reproduction to wrap up the session on the emerging science of horse breeding at the Kentucky International Equine Summit, held in Lexington, Ky., April 28-29. The speakers agreed that the key is not
“For years we’ve taught the industry about reproduction, but we haven’t taught about breeding,” said Gary Carpenter, executive director of the American Quarter Horse Foundation during a roundtable at the International Equine Summit, held in
The first foal sired by a cloned stallion is now nearly a month old. The filly, named Pierazade du Vialaret, is the first get of stallion Pieraz-Cryozootech-Stallion, a clone of two-time World Champion endurance horse Pieraz.
The original
When it comes to artificial insemination in horses, the site of deposition might have a big impact on the procedure’s outcome. Placing semen directly into the uterine horn containing the ready follicle could allow breeders to use far less
Veterinarians who attended presentations at the event came away with 18 hours of continuing education credit and new knowledge of current topics in equine reproduction and lameness.
Prometea, the blazed Haflinger who gained notoriety in 2003 as the world’s first horse clone, has given birth to a colt. Today the Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione (LTR) in Cremona, Italy, announced the March 17 arrival of Pegaso, who
Palm Beach Equine Medical Centers, headquartered in Wellington, Fla., recently purchased the New Bridge Embryo Centre in Aiken, S.C. The facility is now called the Palm Beach Equine Embryo Center (PBEEC). The goal is to continue to provide top-notc
A group of Dutch researchers reported evidence that the equine conceptus (i.e., the embryo and associated membranes) might be directly responsive to the reproductive hormones progesterone and estrogen,
Her future registered name might be different, but around the horse unit at Mississippi State University (MSU), everyone calls her Popsicle.
Born in September, Popsicle is the result of MSU’s first successful frozen embryo transfer in
With breed registries admitting more than one foal per mare per year, the use of frozen embryos is becoming more mainstream.
Breeding in the horse world breaks down into a few categories: field breeding (where the horses just do what comes naturally) live cover in a breeding shed, and artificial insemination. The tools of the trade range from very basic to high-tech
Loss of spermatozoa viability following cryopreservation, historically attributed to the formation of intracellular ice, is now believed to be a result of an osmotic imbalance during thawing. Osmotic imbalances result in the movement
It’s no secret that embryo transfer is expensive, and that its success rates are lower than those of some other methods of equine reproduction. “Commercially, single embryo recovery attempts have a 50% recovery rate, and there is a 50-65%
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