ICHO

Last Call for Fiber Samples!
Yesterday at 12:45:49 PM

Last call for Fiber samples!

Please send your fiber samples for our research project!

Deadline: July 31st.

Please use the Fiber form and the ICHO Store (links below) - select the services at the store and make payment with a check or PayPal. You get an invoice from the store for your records, and we get one for ours too. This is the most accurate way to business with ICHO.

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Pay Fiber Test Fee!

Calendar reservations 2009
Yesterday at 11:39:07 AM

ICHO will be accepting reservations for the 2009 ICHO Calendar.
The calendar will feature GREAT GELDINGS!.

Please use this email to reserve your spot: dsldinfo@gmail.com
Put in subject line: 2009 Calender spot
You may request a specific month if you wish. (no guarantee, but will try to accommodate)

Requirements:

You must be an ICHO member
Horse must be a Gelding
Geldings featured in the calendar must be NACHR registered (or pending, any division)
Photos should be good quality and large sized for clarity; 1500 x 2000 pixels for one feature photo. Can be a bit smaller if submitting more photos.
Requesting action photos to show what these Great Geldings are out there doing.

Sending Photos:
You may send photos to dsldinfo@gmail.com.

Include:

horse(s) name and registration#
your contact info- farm name, address, email, webpage, etc. If you have a farm logo that can be included.
1-4 photos; action shots are great, have a nice background for your photo. Photos must be submitted by August 1, 2008.

Payment:
Payment is due August 1, 2008 cost for month spot will be $25.00 If payment is not received, spot will be given to next person on list.

Go to the ICHO Store to make your payment - select the services at the store and make payment with a check or PayPal. You get an invoice from the store for your records, and we get one for ours too. This is the most accurate way to business with ICHO.

**(our bank Cannot accept checks drawn on Canadian banks in US funds, sorry. Use ONLY checks drawn on US banks, or International Money Order in US funds.)**

DNA re-sample fee
June 02, 2008, 12:46:39 PM

ICHO was recently informed by the University of Kentucky about needed changes in pricing. There will now be a re-testing fee charged if your horse's sample is insufficient to properly test. Text of the letter is located below.
Basically what this means is that if your horse's sample needs to be re-tested, there will be a charge for it. Previously there was not. Please read and follow the instructions on the DNA forms closely and you should have no problems. Be sure to send in a plentiful sample. If a retest is required, the ICHO will contact you.

I am writing to inform you that some changes in pricing regarding re-samples will be
implemented by the University of Kentucky Equine Parentage Lab beginning May 1, 2008.
Unfortunately due to the decrease in new registrations at many registries, sample number has
correspondingly decreased. Although costs for consumables and salaries have increased over the
years, we have not increased price per sample tested in well over ten years. Therefore several
services, the cost of which the lab has been absorbing, must now be charged to the customer.

Changes include: The lab will no longer try to process samples that do not meet the criteria
for sample quality. If we receive body fuzz, insufficient sample or other
samples not appropriate for testing, the lab will no longer make an attempt
to process these. Instead a resample request will be sent immediately.

If a minimal sample does not pass parentage and so little sample was
provided that no sample is available for the mandatory rerun, the result
will be reported as an exclusion and charged for. The registry/owner will
then also have to pay for the re-sample processing. On foal exclusions we
will no longer rerun a sire or darn if they have other offspring on file. The
breed registry will have the option of paying for a retest on an archived
sample or request a new sire or dam sample.

I hope you understand the need for these changes. We feel they are necessary to prevent
any price increase in routine testing. We value your business and encourage you to contact us if
there are any questions about these new policies.

Sincerely,

Kathryn T. Graves, PhD
Director, Equine Parentage and
Research Laboratory.

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