Dr. Phil Sponenberg

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  www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080213104634.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/11/2008    Last Visited: 2/16/2008  

  ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2008) , Phil Sponenberg, professor of pathology and genetics in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, has spent more than 30 years working to make sure certain living pieces of history , some dating to the 15th century , don't become extinct.
  
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  Sponenberg's brand of living history comes in the form of various rare strains of livestock, which were involved in events like Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Caribbean Islands and the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
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  "The Choctaws were one of the tribes displaced from Mississippi, and they took their livestock with them," Sponenberg says.
  
  The breeding stock has dispersed and not everyone can recognize a rare breed when they have one.Sponenberg received a call about a short horse that was about to be gelded.It turned out that the small horse, Icki, was a Choctaw."Icki was the end of his bloodline," says Sponenberg, who was able to buy the stallion and return him to a small herd to sire more Choctaw horses.
  
  Sponenberg has also identified another group of the Spanish horses still in the South , "Marsh Tacky" horses, which were used to manage cattle and to chase wild hogs across swampy terrain.
  
  Another Spanish livestock breed Sponenberg has run across in his travels is South Pineywoods cattle , also known as Florida Cracker Cattle.Small, rugged, horned, heat-tolerant, and disease-resistant, "these cattle are exquisitely adapted to this environment," Sponenberg says.They are also long-lived and productive.
  
  Through the years, Sponenberg has also found more Spanish horses, cotton patch geese, old Spanish goats, and some locally adapted Spanish sheep.
  
  In fact, Sponenberg himself is the owner of a Choctaw horse, and he raises Tennessee myotonic (fainting) goats.The goats are from two old lines from New Braunfels, Texas.
  
  Saving rare breeds
  
  Sponenberg says he loves field work , discovering a new pocket of preserved livestock, making friends, and working with the people who manage the animals.His success, he says, is a result of the friendships and interest he has created , but also because of the strategies he has developed through scientific research.
  
  Along the way, Sponenberg has done work and published strategies specific to rare breeds conservation, documentation, and genetic management.
  
  Now, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is providing technical support for recapturing certain animals for pure breeding.
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  Dr. Phil Sponenberg with a Spanish-style Choctaw horse. (Credit: John McCormick, Virginia Tech)

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  Last Visited: 9/29/2008  

  "The cream color is due to the champagne gene, which is a relatively uncommon gene in most horse breeds in North America," says Dr. Phil Sponenberg, DVM, a professor ofPathology and Genetics at Virginia Tech.He first documented the gene in 1996.

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  2000 Association Pamphlet - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2000    Last Visited: 9/8/2007  

  On recommendation of D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PHD. Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and Chair of Technical Panel, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, appendixing of foals with cream breeding too dark to be considered cream is being done.

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  Published on: 7/31/2001    Last Visited: 1/2/2003  

  Interview with D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PhD, Professor, Pathology and Genetics

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  AQHA - Q-TALK JANUARY 24-30, 2005 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/7/2005    Last Visited: 5/8/2005  

  Phillip Sponenberg, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of pathology and genetics in Virginia Techâ€s Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology in Blacksburg, Virginia, performed the autopsy on Whisperâ€s body.He said the results were inconclusive.
  
  The information on the message board has included claims of disease in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

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  AVAR's Alternatives in Education Booklet - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/12/1999    Last Visited: 9/16/2000  

  The following is from a letter from Dr. D. Phillip Sponenberg, Professor, Pathology and Genetics, dated 13 November 1997 :.
  
  Our surgery courses are basically split into two sorts.One is the introductory course, and in that course students do ovariohysterectomies on shelter animals that are then adopted.In many cases they already have been adopted, and return for the ovariohysterectomy.This course also includes nonterminal laparotomies on sheep, and a castration of pony stallions.No alternative is offered for this course.

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  Published on: 10/24/2006    Last Visited: 9/8/2007  

  In 1998, on the advice of D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PHD Professor, Pathology and Genetics; Chair of Technical Panel; American Minor Breeds Conservancy, Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blackburg, VA. the members voted to begin Tracking Records on other than cream colored females with Cream breeding.

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  American Cream Draft News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/22/2000    Last Visited: 9/8/2007  

  By D. P. Sponenberg, DVM, PhD

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  New Dilution or Silver Variant? - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/10/2006    Last Visited: 10/26/2007  

  In a letter, Professor Phillip Sponenberg said he thought mushroom was as good a word as any owing to mushrooms growing in the dark & he felt completely in the dark on this colour.

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  Published on: 10/19/2002    Last Visited: 7/3/2003  

  To quote Professor Philip Sponenberg on this point "Most light-eyed horses see perfectly well, and are at no disadvantage relative to their dark-eyed herdmates."

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