Post by karismakigers on Jan 20, 2009 21:43:25 GMT -5
I finally cracked open the boxes of BLM paperwork on the Kigers. I'll scan the document and post links so that the entire document can be read.
Gus Cothran, October 1988.
"Blood typed 105 horses from the Kiger range." "Comparisons to date involve 34 breeds and 7 feral samples." "Genetic variability within the Kiger sample was relatively high with an average effective number of alleles of 1.878 and effective heterozygosity of 0.467. This high degree of variability is likely, although not necessarily, due to a mixed origin of this herd or recent introductions. It is, however, not possible to determine at this point, which breeds specifically were involved in the ancestry of the kiger herd."
"The highest average genetic similarity of the Kiger herd was with seven breeds of known Spanish origin. Next highest average similarity was with other hotblood horses." "The highest pairwise similarity was with the Campolina, a Spanish breed from Brazil." "The tree shows the Kiger herd clustering most closely with the known Spanish breeds."
"The Kiger herd does carry one of these variants [variants considered indicative of unequivicable Spanish origin] known as Ddek. The frequency in the Kiger herd is about 4% which is relatively high for this variant."
<My Note> Included in this study for feral populations were: Florida Cracker, American Barb, Kiger, Cruce, Pryor Mountains, Cerbat 1972, Cerbat 1990.
Jillian
Gus Cothran, October 1988.
"Blood typed 105 horses from the Kiger range." "Comparisons to date involve 34 breeds and 7 feral samples." "Genetic variability within the Kiger sample was relatively high with an average effective number of alleles of 1.878 and effective heterozygosity of 0.467. This high degree of variability is likely, although not necessarily, due to a mixed origin of this herd or recent introductions. It is, however, not possible to determine at this point, which breeds specifically were involved in the ancestry of the kiger herd."
"The highest average genetic similarity of the Kiger herd was with seven breeds of known Spanish origin. Next highest average similarity was with other hotblood horses." "The highest pairwise similarity was with the Campolina, a Spanish breed from Brazil." "The tree shows the Kiger herd clustering most closely with the known Spanish breeds."
"The Kiger herd does carry one of these variants [variants considered indicative of unequivicable Spanish origin] known as Ddek. The frequency in the Kiger herd is about 4% which is relatively high for this variant."
<My Note> Included in this study for feral populations were: Florida Cracker, American Barb, Kiger, Cruce, Pryor Mountains, Cerbat 1972, Cerbat 1990.
Jillian
