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Genetic Testing

With the rising importance of knowing your horse's genotype, many people are having their horses genetically tested. This can be useful when breeding for a particular color. For example, when breeding for buckskins you would want the sire or dam to be black based and preferably homozygous for the agouti. However, if you were breeding for silver dapple, you would want to avoid horses with the agouti and try to find them homozygous for black instead.

Here are a few quick links to help those of you who would like to have your horse tested by the UC Davis.

An overview of genetic testing for coat color:
http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/horse.php

Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/faqservices.php

Once you receive your test results, please visit our section on genetic symbols to help you interpret the results.

Note: We had UC Davis test our own buckskin stallion, Golden Gambler. The results were: Ee NC^r AA  (heterozygous black, heterozygous cream, homozygous agouti).

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