DNA Testing for Red Wattle Pigs Plus registered stock

This is for DNA testing for stock that is registered with R ed W attle P igs P lus. You can use this to put DNA markers on file for your foundation and breeding stock for parentage verification of future piglets, or for parentage testing or verification on existing piglets. Once those piglets are verified, their future piglets can easily be verified as well.

Parentage analysis enables breeders to confirm pedigree relationships. An individual animal will have two copies of each DNA, or alleles, at each marker site; one from their mother and the other from the father. Comparing the profiles of offspring to their dam, as well as potential sires, enables confirmation that those individuals "qualify" or be "excluded" as a possible parent

The lab charge is $19.50 for GGP Porcine Parentage, plus the charge for the sample collection method.

You have three options for submission :

1. Blood : Blood cards are $1.00 each. Blood samples will need to be about the size of a quarter and kept clean and uncontaminated until they dry and can be covered.
2. Hair : Hair cards are $1.50 each, and each sample submitted will be charged a $5 "hair fee" by the lab. Simply pull strands of hair out, obtaining the root, and place it on the card and cover it.
3. Tissue : Tissue Sampling Units are $2.50. Taking a tissue sample is quick and clean, similar to tagging ears, but requires a Tag Applicator. RWPP will have a tag applicator available to owners with a shipping charge both ways. A deposit sufficient to replace a lost tag applicator will be collected and returned once the collector is returned.

These are the lab's direct costs . There will be a shipping fee to cover the estimated cost of RWPP obtaining the materials, envelopes, and postage for sending out to breeders with a return envelope, and for return postage to the lab. Shipping charges will be $4 for hair or blood cards and $9.50 for Tissue Tubes and the applicator. The applicator will need to be returned with the tissue sample tubes within two weeks.