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Horseplay and My mini Charlie, I do treat these horses like gold, the few that I have I trim them and work on there teeth, etc, all the time. IF you only knew the difficulty I have been thru in the last 15 yrs that I have been working on this, you would know the few I have recieved I have...

Ok, I appreciate the majority of you understanding the necessity of my work. If it was possible to look at certain disease characteristics without doing necropsies, it would be done. Unfortunately that is not available. Anyone that has ANY understanding of disease research knows and accepts...

Type one is the most common type, i will get a pic of one up soon. A live study to a point. A pathological study obviously involves necropsies of the affected horses.

Attention everyone I am coming to this forum for obvious reasons. You have been quite interested in my work and have expressed a willingnes to help if it is needed. As well as being THE forum to be on for anything going on in the Miniature horse world. Well my situation is muti-fold to say...

Yes just email by PM or email me to [email protected]. John

Mona, Sorry but no. You are seeing way more into this than is there with regards to specific conformational characteristics. That would be similar to me saying that many small eared horses that i have seen have produced dwarfs. There is no way to prove that whatsoever. I do not know of a...

No. There is nothing that humans can do to help the human dwarfs grow to normal size except surgery on a select few bones in a select few types of dwarfism in humans, (ie ACH dwarfism and the surgery to lengthen the long bones of the legs and arms). There is nothing that can help the horses, I...

It does not matter anymore. Can you stand up and say 100% that every bit of all of your horses pedigrees are true and accurate to the founding generations???, if they even go back seven or eight generations. There were many things done years ago, I trust newer pedigrees with DNA and PQ on them...

Learn all you can about good horse conformation, from large horse books. Genetics and breeding reference books. Online book stores look for equine breeding management or genetics. There are a lot out there. Then pay attention to as much as possible the dwarfs out there you se, either in...

"I know is is a non-dwarf question, and maybe you cannot answer it, but I have always wondered what the connection is between coat color and the gi tract in horses? To clarify, why do lethal white foals die due to issues in the intestine? Are these gene's loci on the same chromosome? I've just...

Yuor question was asked earlier in the forum when it started. I will say again, I cannot give out pedigree info that I am using in my research. It would be me publicly saying "such and such" stallion or "such and such " farm has produced a certain number of dwarfs and without scientific proof...

"cite some common genetic defects or spontaneous mutations that are seen in horses of all breeds and by themselves are not necessarily indicators of dwarfism, but may still be heritable." Well for clarification, spontaneous mutations you are probably refering to are probably when a foal is born...

"What is your hypothesis for your thesis?" My hypothesis is that there are multiple types of dwarfisms in the Miniature breed. Each of these types are very consistent in characteristics. Each type is showing simple autosomal recessive inheritance so far. Each type is distinct. I am using...

Just to let everyone know on this board that the end of this week is the end of the Dwarfism Question and Answer Forum. I believe it has run its course of questions to be asked. If any of you have questions regarding Dwarfism in the Miniatures at some later time, please feel free to email me...

Just to let everyone know on this board that the end of this week is the end of the Dwarfism Question and Answer Forum. I believe it has run its course of questions to be asked. If any of you have questions regarding Dwarfism in the Miniatures at some later time, please feel free to email me...

Marty, People have tried to get AMHA to have a section in the registration form to donate just a dollar with each registration. Well that never materialized. The Genetics committee did a raffle of a harness a couple of years ago and rasied about 2000 dollars. The donations by breeders either...

miniwhinney, I do not have any pics on websites to link to but I know there are numerous sites out there and I am sure someone can link there pics that they have on a website. I believe that what Candice has is a horse with not so good conformation that probably is showing some expressivity of...

Joyce, 1.) Do you think that the dominant gene and the recessive gene in horses function the same way as they do in humans? I was reading that a dominant inheritance in humans can include a form of dwarfism. Dominant and recessive genes function the same way in all organisms; plants, animals...

R3, Your articles that you have provided with your questions and your stance on this subject early on was aimed at explaining the reasons for the malformations seen in Miniatures is due to environmental causes not an inherited gene or genes. Your recent questions below and my quoted answers I...

Candice, From the pics you provided, I can say that the colt does not have any glaring characteristics that he is a "dwarf" of any type. HOWEVER, I can say that from looking at the mother and looking at him I would say that he is not of ideal conformation, bluntly he is not a good quality...