{"id":35553,"date":"2016-03-21T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alassalah.com\/en\/?p=35553"},"modified":"2016-03-21T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T04:16:09","slug":"recipient-mares-pass-traits-foals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alassalah.com\/en\/2016\/03\/21\/recipient-mares-pass-traits-foals\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipient Mares Pass Some Traits on to Foals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <u>Katrin Hinrichs, <\/u><\/p>\n<h3>Most of the current research describes the effect of recipient mare size on the resulting foal.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I have two registered Warmblood mares. I plan to ride both in competition but I also would like to get offspring from them. On the other hand, I have two unregistered mares big enough for receiving the embryos, but they aren\u2019t the same type of horse as the two Warmblood mares. One is a \u00adHaflinger-Schwarzw\u00e4lder cross, and the other a Standardbred cross. A friend of mine suggested that both receiving mares would influence the foals&#8211;\u00adespecially regarding future performance \u00adrecords&#8211;in a negative way. Is there any proof or research available about the receiving mare&#8217;s effect on the foal?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jessica Wieland, Germany<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is data available indicating that the recipient mare does influence a foal&#8217;s traits. Most of this describes the effect of recipient mare size in comparison to that of the donor mare. In a study on transfer of pony embryos to either pony or draft mares, a \u00adresearch group in Poland found that at maturity (4 \u00bd years) the pony-in-draft foals were 1.5 to 2.5 inches higher at the withers than those in pony mares, and they also had proportionately longer front legs, especially the cannons, which were almost 10% longer in proportion to body size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These findings were supported by a study in England in which foals resulting from pony embryos transferred to Thoroughbreds were compared to foals \u00adresulting from Thoroughbred embryos transferred to ponies, and both were compared to their same-size recipient controls. The foals from embryos transferred to the \u201cwrong\u201d size mares were different from their control siblings not only in weight and height at birth but also in their growth patterns. At 3 years, the foals&#8217; body weight, length from head to tail, girth, cannon bone circumference, and forearm and cannon bone lengths differed from those of the control foals. In another study by the same group, foals from identical twin embryos that had been transferred to different-size recipient mares differed three inches in height at the withers at \u00adadulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Much less information is available on other traits the recipient mare might influence. In an effort to evaluate this, an Austrian research group used a questionnaire based on an established &#8220;horse personality&#8221; rating to gather information about behavior of embryo transfer foals (all Warmbloods) and compare this with the behavior of their genetic sire and dam and the recipient mare. The only significant correlation found between an embryo transfer foal and the recipient mare was that of &#8220;the social motivation of the recipient mare on the learning capacity of the embryo transfer offspring.&#8221; This group also reported at a meeting that the foals&#8217; impulsion under saddle appeared to be influenced by the recipient mare. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only actual research available in this area.<\/p>\n<h5>Src:\u00a0thehorse.com<\/h5>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katrin Hinrichs, Most of the current research describes the effect of recipient mare size on the resulting foal. I have two registered Warmblood mares. I plan to ride both in competition but I also would like to get offspring from them. 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