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Re: [RC] [RC] Cloning - Crysta TurnageI would disagree with this statement. Unfortunately, the high cost of cloning may NOT mean that the best PERFORMANCE traits are passed on, but rather the traits of where the most money is at, which for many US breeds tends to be the showring. I would hate to see HYPP positive horses cloned, that is certainly not a desirable breed trait that should be passed on, but HYPP N/H and even H/H horses often do very well in the QH halter ring and there's a lot of $$ there. Or what about the latest "fashionable" Arab TREND being duplicated and passed on and on. Certainly producing a clone would allow an individual to more or less double the length of their breeding career, allowing them to pass on their genetics for many more potential mates for years to come. This starts to somewhat follow the line/thinking of doing embryo-transfer for mares... allowing the individual to produce offspring (or more as the case may be) when nature or circumstance (such as Cash being gelded) may have dicated otherwise.
Also, Rusty brings up a great point with the Registries. This clone and Cash have the same DNA - how would a registry tell them apart? Particularly if the clone was of a currently breeding stallion or mare. It would be impossible to DNA-type the offspring and to tell if the parent was the original or the clone. How WOULD you register such an animal???
~ Crysta
On 10/24/07, Smith, Dave <dsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- ~ Crysta "Those of us who finish near the back, make the rest of you look good."
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