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The 3rd Annual ABRAVEQ Conference will be held at The Royal Palm Plaza, Campinas, SP Brazil, June 22-24, 2012 Click on the title for details about the conference.
One of the hot topics discussed during the 27th Annual University of Kentucky Conference on Equine Law, held May 3, 2012, in Lexington, was the legal implications of cloning and embryo transfer in the horse industry. While the legalities of these topics are not discussed frequently in Kentucky, the center of Thoroughbred breeding that requires live cover, they are issue becoming increasingly prevalent in the sport horse industries. Click the article title to read more...
Equine cloning on the northern plains Jan Swan Wood In 2003, the first equine was cloned in Italy. In 2005, Texas A&M cloned the first equine in the U.S. Since that history-making day, over 40 horses have been cloned. Many of the cloned horses are famous performers from the racetrack, cutting arena, rodeo arena and even the roughstock arena. Cloning has involved geldings, mares and stallions, plus mules. The relatively new technology has enabled owners of superior geldings to produce a stallion for reproductive purposes which is genetically an exact copy of the original horse. In 2006, Charmayne James cloned her great gelding Gills Bay Boy, better known as Scamper. Scamper was World Champion Barrel Horse
Zerlotti Equine Embryo Transfers
The art of breeding via embryo transfer requires the perfect combination of skilled science and horsemanship. At Zerlotti Equine, we take our science and horsemanship very seriously ~ successfully leading the embryo transfer industry today.
Semira S. Mancill, DVM; Robert J. Arnott, DVM; Charles C. Love, DVM, PhD; and Katrin Hinrichs, DVM, PhD Authors’ addresses: College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4475 (Mancill, Hinrichs); and Saint John Valley Services, 192 Broadway Street, Woodstock, New Brunswick E7M 6B3, Canada (Arnott); e-mail: smancill@cvm.tamu.edu. © 2008 AAEP. 1. Introduction Previously, twin pregnancy, assumed to be monozygotic (derived from fertilization of one egg by one sperm), has been reported after embryo transfer, but genetic analysis was not performed.
