FRIESIAN HORSE ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND LTD
Harbours Hill Farm, Hanbury Rd, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, B60 4AG
Tel: 00 44 (0) 7740 305267 / 00 44 (0)1527 821276
Website: www.fhagbi.co.uk
FOAL REGISTRATION
© FHAGBI 2013
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Dear FHAGBI Member,
We are delighted to hear of your imminent arrival, and hope that your mare safely has a beautiful, healthy and
happy foal.
We sincerely hope that you will register your Friesian foal with the KFPS, and that you will consider bringing your
mare and foal to the grading. There are details about how to register your foal, along with the relevant forms
included in this foal registration pack and will also be available to download on line.
Although a huge commitment, watching a foal from birth to maturity is a very worthwhile and rewarding experience,
but not always without complications, so we hope that the additional information included within this foal
registration guide is not needed, but will be of help in an emergency.
We cannot recommend strongly enough that you become a member of the National Foaling Bank. Johanna
Vardon’s dedication has saved many an orphaned foal, and she and her team are able to offer invaluable advice
on all aspects of foaling 24 hours a day – a membership form for the National Foaling Bank is included. Also do
not be afraid or embarrassed to phone your vet should you be worried about a possible complication, far better an
out of hours call out charge than a poorly mare or foal.
Further advice and articles can be found on:
www.fhagbi.co.uk
www.kfps.nl
www.fhana.com
The FHAGBI website in particular has a lot of articles and guidance regarding breeding and foal registration, If you
do have any further queries please contact the persons listed below for advice and please do email some photos of
your foal when it arrives as we would love to put them in the newsletter and on the website.
Kind regards
Tracey Venter
FHAGBI President on behalf of the FHAGBI Committee
www.fhagbi.co.uk
tracey@blackhorses.co.uk
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USEFUL CONTACTS:
Please note: there is a wealth of information on breeding and registration on the FHAGBI website, and it would be
a great help to the committee if you could please consult the website in the first instance, and if you cannot find the
information that you require on there, then please by all means email the following persons who will try to answer
your queries as soon as they possibly can but please remember that the FHAGBI Board and Committee are all
unpaid volunteers, they do not operate from a central office, and due to work and family commitments it
may take a week or so during busy times for a reply to reach you. Likewise the KFPS office staff are
extremely busy dealing with enquiries from all over the world so it may take them a week or two to get back
to you.
KFPS contacts:
KFPS
OPRIJLAAN 1
9205 BZ DRACHTEN
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL. 0031 512 523888
MAIN FOALBBOOK (ie approved studbook stallion + main studbook / foalbook dam) REGISTRATIONS:
Ina van der Lei ( email: inavanderlei@fps-studbook.com)
BI-BOEK (i.e. foalbook (unapproved) sire or bi-boek dams) REGISTRATIONS requiring DNA samples:
Trijnie Duin (email: trijnieduin@fps-studbook.com)
SERVICE / BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT FORMS:
Trijnie Duin (email: trijnieduin@fps-studbook.com)
FHAGBI contacts:
FHAGBI
HARBOURS HILL FARM
HANBURY ROAD
STOKE PRIOR
WORCESTERSHIRE
B60 4AG
Breeding and registration advice: Tracey Venter
Email: tracey@blackhorses.co.uk
tel. 07776 145424 (7pm-9pm Mon-Thurs only!)
Accounts / invoice payments: Julian Atkins
Email: jcca2000@aol.com tel. 01527 821276 (7pm-9pm Mon-Fri only!)
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FRIESIAN FOAL REGISTRATION
IMPORTANT: IN ORDER FOR A FRIESIAN HORSE TO BE REGISTERED WITH THE KFPS THE SIRE AND
DAM MUST BOTH BE KFPS REGISTERED FRIESIAN HORSES. IF THE PEDIGREE OF THE HORSE
CONTAINS UNREGISTERED ANIMALS NOT IMMEDIATELY DESCENDED FROM KFPS REGISTERED
STOCK THEN THE HORSE CANNOT BE REGISTERED AS A FRIESIAN WITH THE KFPS
CROSS BREEDING IS FORBIDDEN BY THE KFPS AND CROSS BRED FRIESIAN HORSES CANNOT BE
REGISTERED
PLEASE BREED RESPONSIBLY; TO ENSURE THAT BREED STANDARDS ARE MAINTAINED AT THE
HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVEL AND INBREEDING IS KEPT LOW, IT IS PREFERABLE THAT ONLY MAIN
STUDBOOK MARES ARE BRED FROM, WHERE POSSIBLE USING AI WITH SEMEN FROM AN APPROVED
STUDBOOK STALLION.
BI-BOEK I OR BI-BOEK II STALLIONS SHOULD NOT BE BRED FROM AS THEIR PEDIGREES WILL BE
LESS THAN IDEAL AND THEY AND THEIR OFFSPRING MAY NOT MEET BREED STANDARDS.
IT IS THE BREEDERS’ RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT THE FOAL IS FULLY REGISTERED BEFORE
SALE. PLEASE DO NOT SELL ON FOALS WITHOUT ALL RELEVANT PAPERWORK BEING IN PLACE.
ONCE THE KFPS HAVE RECEIVED ALL PAPERWORK AND HAIR SAMPLES AS APPROPRIATE AND
PROCESSED THE REGISTRATION YOU WILL BE ISSUED WITH AN INVOICE. THIS MAY BE PAID VIA
FHAGBI, BUT NO PASSPORT OR REGISTRATION PAPER WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU UNTIL THE
INVOICE IS PAID IN FULL. REGISTRATION FEES ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST AND WILL SHORTLY BE
AVAILABLE TO VIEW ON THE FHAGBI WEBSITE.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT REGISTRATIONS REQUIRING DNA TESTING OFTEN TAKE IN EXCESS OF 3
MONTHS, PARTICULALRLY IF BI-BOEK REGISTRATIONS.
Naming of foals:
2013 P, Q, R or S
As a guide to Dutch and Friesian names for foals visit www.startkabel.nl, go to the index page and choose Friesch
Paarden forum, on here as well as links to many Friesian sites is a link to a site with names for Friesian horses.
You may apply to the FPS for a protected stable name as a suffix to your foals name, however there is a yearly fee
for this.
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UNSURE OF WHICH REGISTRY YOU SHOULD APPLY FOR? PLEASE REFER TO THE TABLE BELOW
SIRE of
Offspring is
KFPS
Approved
Studbook
stallion (Stb)
Affiliated
studbook
stallion
(FPZV)
Disapproved
studbook
stallion
(previously
Stb but failed
offspring test
now Vb)
Foalbook
stallion (Vb)
with
breeding
permit
(Breeding
permits no
longer given
in EU
countries)
Foalbook
(vb)
stallion
without
breeding
permit
Bi Boek
Stallion
(Please do
not use!!)
KFPS Main
Veulenboek/
stamboek
KFPS Main
Veulenboek/
stamboek
D-Boek
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek II
Bi boek II
D Boek
Bi -boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi Boek II
Dam of
Offspring is
KFPS Main
Stamboek /
veulenboek
Mare
D Boek
Bi- boek I
mare sired by
non Stb
stallion
Bi-boek I mare
sired by Stb
stallion
Bi-boek I mare
with 3 x stb
stallions in
last 4
generations
Bi-boek II
mare sired by
VB or
disapproved
studbook
stallion
Bi-boek II
mare sired by
Vb stallion
with breeding
permit
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek I
Bi-Boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-Boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
KFPS Main
Veulenboek/
stamboek
Bi-boek I
Bi Boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
Bi-boek II
KFPS Main
Veulenboek/
stamboek
Bi-boek I
Bi-boek I
Please do your bit to ensure the future high standards of the breed:
Please where possible only breed KFPS main studbook mares (mares with an approved sire which have
themselves been graded into the studbook as adults - as much as you may adore your mare …..IF YOUR
MARE FAILS TO BE GRADED INTO THE STUDBOOK, HAS DEVELOPMENTAL / DEGENERATIVE JOINT
DISEASE (Osteochondrosis, osteoarthritis, wobblers syndrome ) OR HAS SWEET-ITCH THEN YOU NEED
TO QUESTION HER SUITABILITY AS A BROODMARE – PLEASE DO NOT PASS ON GENETIC BASED
PROBLEMS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HORSES.
It is far preferable that breeders use semen from KFPS Approved Stb stallions. If you decide that you are
going to use your Friesian stallion to cover mares with, please ensure he is in the main foalbook, has an
excellent, full papered pedigree (all mares in pedigree Ster, Ster-Pref, Kroon, Model, or Model Pref) and that
he has been to a grading and received the ster predicate and also check the inbreeding percentage of the
stallion with the mare he is going to cover. Again ANY STALLION WITH POTENTIALLY GENETICALLY
HERITABLE ISSUES SUCH AS DEVELOPMENTAL / DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE (INCLUDING
WOBBLERS SYNDROME!!) OR CONDITIONS SUCH AS SWEET ITCH SHOULD NOT BE BRED FROM.
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REGISTRATION OF MAIN FOALBOOK FOALS
(Approved STUDBOOK sire and main studbook / foalbook dam)
At the end of the breeding season, the stud from which you obtained the semen will forward to the KFPS a service
confirmation and the KFPS / Stud will send you a white Birth Announcement form.
+ IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU ARE A CURRENT MEMBER OF FHAGBI / KFPS AND THAT THE
REGISTRATION PAPERS OF THE DAM ARE TRANSFERRED INTO YOUR NAME IMMEDIATELY AFTER
PURCHASE.
+DELAYS IN TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP MAY MEAN YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
FORM FROM THE KFPS AND THIS MAY LEAD TO DELAYS IN THE REGISTRATION OF THE FOAL.
++IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT FORM IN THE DECEMBER OR JANUARY
FOLLOWING THE INSEMMINATION OF THE MARE PLEASE CONTACT:
Trijnie Duin (KFPS office)
(trijnieduin@fps-studbook.com) tel: 00 31 512 523888
+YOU WILL BE ISSUED WITH AN ADMINISTRATION FEE FROM THE KFPS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER
YOUR MARE CARRIES TO TERM OR NOT.
* Even if the mare reabsorbs, aborts, has a still born foal or a foal with a congenital defect, it is very important to
complete the birth announcement form and send it back to the FPS. This is important for calculating the fertility
rates of the FPS approved studbook stallions and also to monitor any congenital defects
Within 14 days of the birth of the foal, the birth announcement form must be completed and returned to:
KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205 BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
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It is recommended that you take a photocopy of any paperwork to keep for yourself and that any forms are
sent to the KFPS by international signed for post.
The KFPS will then send a confirmation of the naming of the foal (A Blue Birth Acknowlegement form) and the foal
we be provisionally registered (VVR), assigned a registration number and entered on the KFPS database.
It is a requirement of the KFPS, EU and DEFRA that in the first six months after birth ( or before December 31 st in
year of birth and certainly before weaning) that your foal must be microchipped. You will have to arrange for your
veterinary surgeon to microchip the foal at the side of it’s dam and complete Identification form VBID1
(most vets will suggest that this is done from 6 weeks of age attaching the barcode sticker from the microchip to the
form. You may either hand in your birth announcement form and identification form at a keuring if your mare and
foal are attending, or if you are not brining your foal to be graded you must send both forms to the KFPS. Once the
KFPS have received this and the foal announcement confirmation they will invoice you for the registration and
again, once paid will post registration papers and the passport.
** if you are bringing your foal to be graded it MUST be microchipped in advance**
Please do ensure that you have your foal microchipped and registered / passported well before it is weaned, as if
left until after weaning then DNA testing will have to take place and if not carried out before 6 months of age or
December 31st in the year of birth then you are in breach of EU regulations and could risk a fine / prosecution.
Please refer to the following pages for birth announcement form translations and for information on
exceptions to main foal book registrations which require DNA samples to be taken verification of pedigree
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The Birth Announcement form will be set out as follows (translation given in red).
DIO Nummer:
Dek-/-inseminatie-station: (stud or insemination station):
Hengst (stallion):
Naam: name
Registratienummer: registration number of stallion
Dekdatum: date of service
Merrie (mare)
Naam: name
Registratienummer: registration number of mare
Geboren: date of birth
Tongnummer / chipnummer : tongue or microchip number
Eigenaar merrie; owner of mare
GEBOORTEBERICHT
Binnen twee weken na de geboorte van het veulen ingevuld en ondertekend in te zenden aan het FPS. Ook
inzenden wanneer de merrie gust is gebleven, heft verwopen e.d.
Within two weeks of the birth of the foal complete the following and return to the FPS. Even if the mare has not
taken or has aborted etc.
Geboren op: Born on
Geslacht (sex)
Hengst (colt) / Merrie(filly)
(doorhalen wat niet van toepassing is /
Kleur (colour)
cross out what foal is not
Aftekening (white markings)
Naam veulen (name of foal)
eigenaar merrie (owner of mare)
Naam: (name)
Adres (Address)
Postcode woonplaats (postcode / town/city/ county)
Telefoon (telephone number)
Datum (date)
Opmerkingen : remarks
tick boxes
[] gust gebleven (empty)
[] Verwopen (aborted)
[] dood geboren (still born)
[] kort na de geboren
Gestorven (died shortly after birth)
[] mismaakt geboren (birth
defect)
[] dwergveulen
(dwarf)
[] Waterhoofd (water on the brain /
hydrocephalus)
[] anders (other)please say what.
eigenaar veulen (owner of foal)
Handtekening Merriehouder
(signature of person caring for mare)
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MAIN FOALBOOK REGISTRATION EXCEPTIONS REQUIRING DNA
SAMPLES:
1.Registration of EMBRYO TRANSFER main foal book foals.
The process is as for non-ET main foalbook foals. However, it is also necessary to download a Registration /
Breeding Information form for ET foals (ETID1) from the FHAGBI website, and have your Vet take a hair
sample from the foal and its biological (donor) mother for DNA testing at the same time as micro chipping the foal
and completing the identification form. Only a few (10-15) hairs from the mane or tail are required but they must
include the root.
Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for each separate horse, and mark each bag in permanent ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
: Please ensure that
you send the following to the KFPS:
- the original KFPS registration document (i.e birth announcement form) if available,
- KFPS Passport-Identification & Registration Document (VBID1) completed by your veterinary
surgeon (including microchip barcode sticker),
- Embryo Transfer Registration / Breeding Information form form (ETID1)
- DNA samples from Foal to be registered and biological (Donor) Dam.
- Letter of conformation / or other proof such as invoice with date of ET listed from Stud manager /
veterinarian overseeing the procedure.
To.
Trijnie Duin / Ina van der Lei, KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
Please do this at the earliest opportunity to allow DNA verification and preliminary registration in advance of a
keuring, since DNA test may take in excess of 2 months.
2. Registration of Main foalbook foals where there is an issue over service dates
On occasion, the KFPS having received the completed birth announcement from you, may query the date of birth
of the foal relative to the service dates that they have received from the Stud supplying the AI. In such cases they
will send a letter directly to you requesting a hair sample from both the dam and the foal. Only a few (10-15) hairs
from the mane or tail are required but they must include the root.
Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for each separate horse, and mark each bag in permanent ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
The forms (VBID1 + KFPS Birth Acknowledgement) and DNA samples must then be sent to:
Trijnie Duin / Ina van der Lei, KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
Once these have been received, processed and verified registration will be completed.
Please follow any further instructions given in the letter you receive from the KFPS.
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3. Registration of Main foalbook foals where the dam has been inseminated with AI from 2 different
stallions within the same year.
If your mare did not take on her first or second insemination and you then inseminate her on her following cycle
with semen from a different stallion, the KFPS will again write to you to request hair samples from the foal and its
dam for DNA verification. Only a few (10-15) hairs from the mane or tail are required but they must include the
root.
Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for each separate horse, and mark each bag in permanent ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
The forms (VBID1 + KFPS Birth Acknowledgement) and DNA samples must then be sent to:
Trijnie Duin / Ina van der Lei, KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
4. Registration of main foalbook horses over 6 months of age / after 31 st December in year of birth.
If you do not register your foal before it is 6 months of age or before 31 st December in the year that it is born then
the KFPS will require hair samples to be taken from the Foal and its Dam for DNA verification. Only a few (10-15)
hairs from the mane or tail are required but they must include the root.
Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for each separate horse, and mark each bag in permanent ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
The forms (VBID1 + KFPS Birth Acknowledgement / Birth Announcement + Registration-Breeding
Information Form (RBIF1)) and DNA samples must then be sent to:
Trijnie Duin / Ina van der Lei, KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
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AUXILLARY STUDBOOK (BI-BOEK REGISTRATIONS) – FOALS FROM NON-APPROVED
STALLIONS
Registration in D-Boek of foals from a KFPS dam and a FPZV sire
Following a number of years of discussion between the KFPS and the breakaway German Friesian Horse registry
(the FPZV) The D-boek was formed in in order to accommodate registrations of foals from KFPS dams (or KFPS
D-Boek dams) and FPZV (or other EU recognized registry for Friesian horses ) sires (in many cases FPDZ sires
are former KFPS approved stallions who had their breeding approval removed by the KFPS due to unsatisfactory
offspring reports). For guidance on registering foals in the D-boek please contact Trijnie Duin or Ina van der Lei at
the KFPS.
Registration in Bi-Boek I of foals with an Approved Studbook Sire but out of a Bi-Boek Dam
The registration procedure is the same as for main foal book foals in that you should receive a birth announcement
form from the KFPS to be completed and returned within 14 days of birth, after which the KFPS will send a Blue
Birth Acknowledgement form. However, you must also ask your veterinary surgeon to take a hair sample from the
mane or tail of the dam and the foal (this need only be a few strands (10-15 hairs) but it must include the root),
when he microchips the foal and completes the Identification / Registration form form (BBID1) and a
Registration-Breeding Information Form (RBIF1) It is recommended that the forms and DNA samples are sent
to the KFPS at the earliest opportunity to allow DNA verification and preliminary registration in advance of a
keuring, since DNA test may take in excess of 2 months
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Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for hair sample from each separate horse, and mark each
bag in permanent ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
The completed identification form and DNA samples must then be sent to:
Trijnie Duin , KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
Registration in Bi-boek II of foals from non-approved vb stallions without breeding privileges.
To register (In Bi-Boek II, brown papers)and obtain a passport for a foal from a non-approved foalbook stallion
without breeding privileges it is necessary to request an identification/ registration form (BBID1)and a
Registration-Breeding Information Form (RBIF1) from FHAGBI. You must have a veterinary surgeon complete
this with the foal at the side of the dam, microchip the foal and collect a hair sample from the mane or tail of the
sire, dam and foal for DNA testing. Only a few (10-15) hairs from the mane or tail are required but they must
include the root.
This must all be sent to the KFPS in the Netherlands and after satisfactory DNA results you will be invoiced for the
foal registration. On settlement of the invoice Bi-boek II registration papers and a passport will be posted to you.
Again, please ensure that your foal is microchipped at the side of its dam, and registration papers / passport
applied for before 6 months of age or before December 31st in year of birth, whichever is earlier. It is recommended
that the forms and DNA samples are sent to the KFPS at the earliest opportunity to allow DNA verification and
preliminary registration in advance of a keuring, since DNA test may take in excess of 2 months
Please note that Bi-Boek II foals may now be graded at an inspection.
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Please use a separate small sealed plastic bag for each separate horse, and mark each bag in permanent
ink:
Name of horse:
Registration Number:
Owner:
Location:
Date:
The completed identification form, completed registration-breeding information form, and DNA samples must then
be sent to: Trijnie Duin , KFPS, Oprijlaan 1, 9205BZ Drachten, The Netherlands
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