Dairy Beef 500 Conference
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How to take a hair Sample Correctly for Genotyping?
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How to correctly take a Hair Sample for Genotyping?
3 Critical Steps-
- Check the Label ID to see if it matches the ID (national tag) of the animal. Ensure the hair is clean and dry with the roots from the end of the tail attached.
How to Take a Hair Sample?
- Please ensure the tag number printed on the card matches the animals Official tag number.
- Hair samples should be pulled from the end of the tail, it is the root follicles that are analysed.
How to take a Hair Samples for the genotyping process?
When taking hair samples as part of the genotyping process, please take 40-60 root follicles from the tail end of the animal. The root follicles should also be clean and dry. This will prevent hair samples required to be retested again, which would also delay the turnaround time of genomic results. The below images will help herd-owners on how to correctly take hair samples for genotyping. (more…)
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