VNIIK Registration
The only recognized purebred Akhal-Teke registration is in the official VNIIK (the Russian state scientific institution) studbook . Here are the list of fees. For more information and registration help contact the Akhal-Teke Registry, their instruction page.
Here are the guidelines for registration of pure bred Akhal-Tekes:
I. DNA:
Here are some approved laboratories:
Canada:
For Akhal-Tekes, Maxxam has an agreement with Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (CLRC) whereby CLRC collects the fees for DNA tests performed by Maxxam from the horse owners, and then pays Maxxam.
Maxxam will not bill or collect money from individuals.
As a result, the process is the following:
1. The horse owner completes the DNA Test Kit Application form which is attached and sends it to Canadian Livestock Records Corporation, 2417 Holly Lane Ottawa ON K1V 0M7 with the fee of $65 plus GST ($3.25) per horse. Copies of the pedigrees for the sire and dam should be attached to the application.
2. CLRC sends the owner a test kit, to which the hairs are to be taped. The hairs are then sent to Maxxam’s lab in Guelph at the address that will be on the form.
3. Maxxam performs the test and forwards the results electronically to CLRC.
4. CLRC prints a report and forwards it to the horse owner.
USA:
Animal Genetic Testing & Research Laboratory
Department of Veterinary Science
108 Gluck Equine Research Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0099 USA
Phone: 859-257-4757 X81193
DNA Test only
VIBS, CVM
Box 4458
Texas A&M
College Station, TX 77843
Phone: 979-845-0229
Shelterwood Laboratories/ DNA Diagnostics, Inc.
DNA and Blood Tests
P.O. Box 455
626 Bear Dr.
Timpson, TX 75975
Phone 936-254-2228
Instructions_for_collecting_DNA_samples
The parentage testing requires blood typing and DNA for foals whose parents have already been registered with VNIIK. However, if you take hair from the registered parents then you can use hair DNA on the foals, and future foals as well.
If the parents are not registered then they will require blood typing and DNA testing for their registration before a foal can be registered.
II. VNIIK:
1. For registration of a foal:
- fill the Certificate about a birth of a foal (apply via form 2 foal registration)
- send DNA card of foal and his parents
- Identification Chart, signed and stamped by vet
- send a photo of a foal where it is photographed together with his mother and where its colour and white marks are well visible.
- Two photographs taken from each side of the animal
- Blood Profile
- DNA Profile
2. For registration of a stallion in a role of father it is necessary to fill statements for their record in the General Studook (apply via form 3 breeding stallion license).
2. For registration of mares and stallions as dams and sires it is necessary to fill statements for their record in the General Studbook (apply via form 4a & form 4b: stallion & mare registration in studbook)
3. Passport for purebred Akhalteke horse and registration of foals:
- if presenting a demand before 31 October of current year – 25 euros
- Cost of record of a stallion in the General Studbook as sire – 70 euros
- Cost of record of a mare in the General Studbook as dam – 17 euros
Note: All quotations are given for MAAK members.
Initial registration fee for individual members:
3-10 purebred Akhal-Tekes over three y.o.: 18 EUR / horse
Pay annual membership dues for 2009:
3-10 purebred Akhal-Tekes over three y.o.: 12 EUR / horse
*fees include passport of purebred AkhalTeke horse & registration of a foal.
Additional fees:
-Analysis & proof of origin based on bloodtyping & DNA test: 10 EUR
-Registration into General Studbook of pureblood Akhalteke horses of foal under mother: 8 EUR
Additional_fees:
Changing owner’s name by issuing a new document to replace existing one
Changing owner’s name with MAAK seal verifying the change in existing document
Akhal-Teke UK is also willing to help you register your Akhal-Tekes by VNIIK. They are very helpful and we are also looking at this option for our mass registration process!! This link is to their registration page.
*The All-Russian Research Institute of Horsebreeding” (VNIIK) bears valid licenses for registering horses and up keeping the studbook of purebred Akhal-Teke horses.
Order of Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation #676, Dec.26, 2007:
State Research Institute “All Russian Research Institute of Horsebreeding” (VNIIK) of Russian Academy of Agricultural Science is granted a license 000235 ,for “organization of life-stock inventory, control, estimation of level of productivity and quality of the production, breeding quality of animals” (center of information service).
The license is given for 5 years with prolongation.
Also several departments of VNIIK are granted related licenses:
“Laboratory of immunogenetic expertise” – License 000232, for 5 years with prolongation
“Laboratory of molecular-genetic expertise” – Licence 000233, for 5 years with prolongation
“Organisation of artificial insemination of agricultural animals (horses)” – Licence 000234, for 5 years with prolongation
The ONLY legal organization registering and keeping the studbook of purebred Akhal-Teke horses is VNIIK, the co-founder of MAAK. The breeders and owners must proceed with registering foals via MAAK as usual.
