Participant Instructions
COVID-19 UPDATE: In adherence to the University of Minnesota and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for COVID-19, our lab members will be teleworking until further notice. Your packages will be received at our loading dock and mailbox, but will remain there until collected by a lab member on a weekly basis. You can continue to fill out our Muscle Disease in Horses survey, upload files to Dropbox, and send samples to our laboratory if you haven’t already done so during this time.
Please make sure you have all the items on the Owner Checklist before proceeding to the Muscle Disease in Horses Survey.
Helpful Materials for the Survey (Lameness section):
Instructions for Files to Upload to Dropbox (After the Survey):
- How to Take a Photo of Your Horse
- How to Take a Video Your Horse
- How to Upload Files to Dropbox
- Link to Dropbox
United States of America (USA) Participants:
- Collection instructions for samples to send to the Equine Genetics and Genomics Laboratory for each horse from the survey:
- How to Collect Supplement Samples
- How to Collect Grain Samples
- How to Collect Hay Samples
- How to Collect Hair Roots or Blood Samples
- Sample Submission Forms to send with Hair Roots or Blood Samples:
International Participants:
- Collection instructions for samples to send to the Equine Genetics and Genomics Laboratory for each horse from the survey:
- Instructions for Sample Shipment:
Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory
University of Minnesota
1333 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
When you are sending samples, please send us an email with the tracking number and items you sent to eggl-muscledis@umn.edu ASAP.
If you are shipping samples from outside the USA, please see How to Ship Samples Internationally with Import Permit.