A beginner 's guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl.
A beginner's guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl.
A breeding colony was established by a single pair in 1988.
A breeding stock is maintained to supply the ground, or the "collectors," with spat, and the latter, when sufficiently grown, is then transplanted to the most favourable feeding-grounds, care being taken to avoid the local over-crowding which is so commonly observed among shell-fish under natural conditions.
A full guarantee that such viruses do not exist within their breeding lines is almost impossible.
A future top show / breeding stallion or beautiful lead rein pony.
A good breeder will try to avoid breeding for extremes, and will refrain from breeding a dog with scrambled teeth or an incorrect jaw.
A great asset to our breeding program and her very old bloodlines will be preserved for years to come.
A green sandpiper feed busily from the gravely beach, which will soon provide breeding areas for little ring plover and common sandpiper.
A horse 's breeding can attract interest from buyers, so it may be worth mentioning a famous or successful sire.
A horse's breeding can attract interest from buyers, so it may be worth mentioning a famous or successful sire.
A neutered male will be able to have other rabbit friends, without fear of agression or breeding.
A number of foreign animals have been introduced, and more or less domesticated, and some useful exotics have been cultivated for the purpose of testing their applicability to French agriculture or horticulture; but neither in the case of animals nor of plants has there been any systematic effort to modify the constitution of the species, by breeding largely and selecting the favourable variations that appeared.
A number of male sticklebacks were investigated during the breeding season.
A recently added bonus of exotic trees is the now thriving colonies of breeding golden orioles in Suffolk.
A Tradition of Genetic Improvement The UK is the birthplace of modern scientific pig breeding.
About a third of all the species known in the United States are found within the state or close to its borders, and of these, 9 or to are so common that their increase under conditions favourable to their development may be a danger Such conditions are found in dry years, unfavourable to their chief parasitic enemies, favourable to their own breeding, and the cause of their migrations.
Above its surface tower a great number of volcanoes and several craters, and its waters are alive with water-fowl, a multitude of ducks of various species breeding on its islands.
Access to abundant sea water, local marine organisms and fish breeding expertise provides a self sufficiency that ensures a reliable and consistent service.
Afghanistan appears to be, during the breeding season, the retreat of a variety of Indian and some African (desert) forms, whilst in winter the avifauna becomes overwhelmingly Eurasian.
All breeding is controlled by hormones, on a strict timetable.
All showed a similar response, indicating that tolerance to ozone may not be an option in breeding improved cultivars.
All the bright-hued examples we now see in captivity have been induced by carefully breeding from any chance varieties that have shown themselves; and not only the colour, but the build and stature of the bird have in this manner been greatly modified.
All things considered, most breeders will wait until a female is at least one year of age before breeding.
Along this stretch of the river there are 4 breeding pairs of Kingfisher.
Along with these physical characteristics, only dogs with the most dominant personalities have been selected for breeding, eventually resulting in animals with die-hard aggressive qualities who are willing to fight on command.
Although a love dogs often culminates in a desire to breed more, not every dog is a candidate for breeding.
Although many individual skuas keep the same mate each breeding season, some birds select another mate.
Although occasional more or less doubtful instances have been recorded of female mules breeding with the males of one or other of the pure species, it is more than doubtful if any case has occurred of their breeding inter se, although the opportunities of doing so must have been great, as mules have been reared in immense numbers for at least several thousands of years.
Although, by definition, breeding is simply the act of allowing intact dogs to mate, responsible dog breeders realize there is so much more to dog breeding.
Among still other causes are great bulk, which proves fatal under certain new conditions; relatively slow breeding; extreme specialization and development of dominant organs, such as horns and tusks, on which for a time selection centres to the detriment of more useful characters.
Amphibians are quite long-lived, and can afford to miss an occasional breeding season.
Animals 250 breeding mule ewes are reared at Doves Farm.
Another industry of a different character is that of breeding the fur-bearing chinchilla (C. laniger), which is a native of the higher plateaus.
Any deworming and vaccinations should be carried out prior to a planned breeding or taken care of after the kittens are weaned.
Anyone considering using an older stud on one of their bitches can take the dog, or request that the stud owner take the dog, to the vet for a sperm count prior to breeding.
April 2006 Staff at Folly Farm's zoo are ecstatic this Easter, with the successful breeding of their endangered lemurs.
Around 38,000 gray seals are born on land at breeding colonies in the UK each November.
Artificial breeding techniques Up to 75% of dairy cows in the UK are impregnated by artificial insemination (AI ).
As a rule, sheep-farming is resorted to where the soil is of inferior quality and unsuitable for tillage and the breeding of cattle.
Ask important questions such as how long the owner has been breeding cats in general and the breed you want in particular.
At LoveToKnow Cats, all of our staff writers have backgrounds in various aspects of the cat fancy, from long-time ownership, to breeding and showing.
At one time London was able to supply many Continental gardens with giraffes, and Dublin and Antwerp have had great successes with lions, whilst antelopes, sheep and cattle, deer and equine animals are always to be found breeding in one collection or another.
At the breeding season the walls of the pouches burst and the sexual elements pass into the atrium, whence they are discharged through the atriopore into the water, where fertilization takes place.
At the same time those animals which show the most susceptible genotype will be removed from the breeding program.
At this point, I would advise either skipping your bitch's season this time around or finding a healthy stud of breeding age.
Avoid Puppy Mills - disreputable breeding farms that mistreat animals by confining them in inadequate kennels, under poor conditions just to create additional litters.
Babies between four and fifteen months of age generally sleep for long periods in soiled diapers, which is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria that thrive in damp, urine-soaked areas.
Badinage and other light railleries were encouraged, provided they were impersonal and no threat to good fellowship or good breeding.
Because of the superior quality of the dilute to the clearwing many clearwing breeders find the dilute of valuable asset in their breeding program.
Believe it or not, science has been tampering with feline genetics for years, trying to genetically alter cats to produce a viable breeding strain that lacks the Fel d1 protein.
Besides the normal training and playing, you can also have a legacy dog by breeding it for additional generations.
Between the quota system areas and the free breeding areas raptors would continue to thrive and damage would be down to a minimum.
Both changes had been brought about by careful selective breeding.
Breeders were selectively breeding the cats to exhibit unusual traits such as extreme tubular-looking bodies, long legs and a wedge-shaped head.
Breeding behavior frequently resembles combat.
Breeding birds of the river margins include sedge warbler, whitethroat and reed bunting, while skylark breeds on the meadow.
Breeding Curlew were among the abundant breeding waders much in evidence on the moorland.
Breeding is unregulated and natural selection prevails.
Breeding is usually in the autumn; the eggs become attached to the underside of the female's abdomen.
Breeding males are readily recognized at a distance by the intensely black colour of the lower parts of their body.
Breeding non-spotted gerbils together will never produce white spotted gerbils.
Breeding oysters are piled upon the rookeries, and their young become attached to the stakes and twigs provided for their reception, where they are allowed to remain until ready for use, when they are plucked off and sent to the market.
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Breeding pair snakeskin Discus this is a proven pair not a matched pair or a...
Breeding swine, male and female, run most of their time at pasture and receive a liberal allowance of green food or raw roots.
Breeding The ideal age for the female Dwarf Russian hamster to start breeding is between 3 and 4 months of age.
Breeding with with native short-haired cats eventually led to the proto-type for the Maine Coon.
British Waterways has constructed an otter holt from logs to encourage otters to return to the canal for breeding.
But in the case of indigenous species the breeding stock must be very seriously reduced before the addition of the eggs or fry of a few score or hundreds of fish can appreciably increase the local stock.
But the breeding of horses and sheep is of equal importance with agriculture.
But the piled-up gold left one hair exposed; in order to cover it Loki returned to Andvari and forced him to surrender a magic ring which had the virtue of breeding gold.
But the supply of suitable animals is not good, and their cost is large; so the breeding of donkey stallions has been undertaken at the Hissar farm in the Punjab.
By 2000, the Welsh countryside supported an estimated 260 breeding pairs - representing almost 1,000 individual birds, including juveniles.
By selling only shearlings, we endeavor to supply livestock which will achieve a long breeding life span.
By the 1900s, the breed had all but disappeared from being used extensively in Persian breeding programs.
By undermining social cohesion, inequality provides a breeding ground for crime and disorder.
Careful breeding has helped expand this breed, but it is not yet recognized by CFA.
Carry all of their breeding plumage we won't have.
Cats that are bought as pets, not for breeding, should be neutered or spayed at the age recommended by your veterinary surgeon.
Cattle breeding is another great source of revenue, and the exploitation of the forests gives beech and oak timber (good for shipbuilding), gall-nuts, oak-bark and cork.
Changes in the roofs of two nursery roosts have improved the environment for the bats during the breeding season.
Climate change Changes in migration and breeding phenology evident in many species.
Control of flies outdoors in their breeding areas is considered impractical.
Currie was joined, however, by two' other men and they busied themselves in growing vegetables, wheat and oats, and in breeding pigs.
Despite disturbance from cutting, the lowland bogs are important for breeding waders lapwing, snipe and curlew have been recorded.
Details of article Assessing what factors affect marmosets breeding success by Sharyn Amos.
Do you think artificial insemination will ever play a part in the thoroughbred breeding industry?
Dog breeders choose to breed for a number of reasons, but those who care about the breed are likely to be more responsible in their breeding practices and in the placement of the dogs.
Dog breeding involves so much more than simply putting a female in heat together with an intact male and allowing them to mate.
Dog breeding takes a great deal of research, expertise, time commitment and the right environment.
Driven by the Caroline legislation against cattle into breeding 'a!
Due to selective breeding, most pedigree dog breeds are genetically predisposed to suffer.
During the breeding season it utters a booming noise, from which it probably derives its generic name, Botaurus, and which has made it in many places an object of superstitious dread.
During the breeding season, a male will make several shallow nest scrapes in a well guarded territory.
During the first year of their existence, before the breeding season begins, they live in small companies in still pools or gently flowing brooks.
During the four years for which he held that office, although he allowed the finances of the colony to get into confusion, he endeavoured to improve its condition by introducing the vine, sugar-cane and tobacco plant, and by encouraging the breeding of horses and the reclamation of land.
Duroc boars are used as natural servers as a back up to AI, with all selected breeding sows reared at Harnhill.
Efforts are continuing to attract breeding terns back to Barry.
Excellent wheat is grown in the vicinity, while another industry is the breeding of cattle.
Experimental cross breeding between wild Asian Leopard Cats and domestic house cats began in earnest back in the 1960's.
Explain how an animal breeder in the learner's locality selects animals from which to breed, for a commercial breeding program.
Extraordinary increase in length during the breeding season causes the vasa deferentia in some of the African weaverbirds to protrude, or to bulge out the cloacal walls beyond the vent.
First, you state that you don't want to become a breeder, yet you're thinking about breeding at least a couple of litters of mixed-breed kittens.
For example, northern breeders including skuas funnel through the English Channel into the North Sea on the way to their breeding grounds.
For many years feral or escaped ring-necked parakeets have actually been breeding around the London suburbs.
For most members of SEAC, policy on animal breeding was unfamiliar territory.
For the content of morality we are necessarily referred, in great part, to the experience crystallized in laws and institutions and to the unwritten law of custom, honour and good breeding, which has become organic in the society of which we are members.
For years, breeders have used " mutation breeding " to develop new varieties.
Frank 's eye took him into Thoroughbred breeding where he also had notable success.
Free puppies are often the result of an unplanned and unwanted breeding.
From the natives of northern and central Australia to the actors in the ritual of Adonis, or the folk among whom arose the customs of crowning the May king or the king of the May, all peoples have done magic to encourage the breeding of animals as part of the food supply, and to stimulate the growth of plants, wild or cultivated.
From the selection of your first puppy, through training, breeding and those final years, we offer articles covering all aspects of dog ownership.
From these specific uses the word has come into general use as a synonym of "aristocrat" or "noble," and implies the possession of such qualities as are generally associated with long descent, hereditary good breeding and the like.
Furthermore, smooth brome grass clones selected using conventional breeding showed that reduced lignin was associated with severe rust fungus disease [23] .
Furthermore, the Tringinae, except when breeding, frequent the sea-shore much more than do the Totaninae.'
German Shepherds have become a popular breed, and as with many breeds before them, indiscriminent breeding by those seeking a quick cash return has resulted in lesser quality animals contributing to the gene pool.
Gough is also a major breeding site of the great shearwater Puffinus gravis with up to three million pairs breeding on the island.
Guillemots are extremely gregarious, colonial breeding is the norm and colonies can contain many tens of thousands of individuals.
Habitats with a plentiful supply of field voles appeared to support greater breeding success in barn owls.
Having inherited a fortune, he bought land in Apulia and Calabria and devoted himself to breeding race-horses.
He sent his master of the horse abroad to purchase a number of foreign horses and mares for breeding, and the mares brought over by him (as also many of their produce) were called " royal mares "; they form a conspicuous feature in the annals of breeding.
He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation.
He was a man of strong personality, of measured utterance, "civil" (says Penn) "beyond all forms of breeding."
Heat produced by the ear flap hanging over the ear canal creates a breeding ground for bacteria.
Himalayans were originally created through breeding Persian cats and Siamese cats, the result is a beautiful animal with all of the good personality traits of both breeds.
Hip dysplasia is very common in dogs that come from poor breeding decisions.
His day was thus one of incessant mental activity; but hard work was so far from breeding a distaste for his occupation, that reading and writing grew ever more delightful to him (literarum assiduitas non modo mihi fastidium non pant, sed voluptatem; crescit scribendo scribendi studium).
Horse and mule breeding are carried on to a limited extent, and since the opening of the far South more attention has been given to sheep. Goats and swine are raised in small numbers on the large estates, but in Chiloe swine-raising is one of the chief occupations of the people.
Horse breeding and cattle raising form the chief source of wealth in the province.
Horses are now diffused by the agency of man throughout almost the whole of the inhabited parts of the globe, and the great modifications they have undergone in consequence of domestication, crossing, and selective breeding are well exemplified by comparing such extreme forms as the Shetland pony, dwarfed by uncongenial climate, the thoroughbred racer, and the London dray-horse.
Horses famous for their size and quality are reared in the marshes of Aurich and Stade, in Hildesheim and Hanover; and, for breeding purposes, in the stud farm of Celle.
House dust mites find a mattress the perfect breeding ground.
How long have you been breeding Siberians?
However, I hope that it may explain some things for people new to breeding chinchillas.
Huxley's conclusions as regards the future of the oyster industry in Great Britain are doubtless just as applicable to other countries - that the only hope for the oyster consumer lies in the encouragement of oyster-culture, and in the development of some means of breeding oysters under such conditions that the spat shall be safely deposited.
Hybrids are also common, the canary breeding freely with the siskin, goldfinch, citril, greenfinch and linnet.
I am hand rearing cockatiels all during the breeding season, and have 2 being reared at present.
I believe you should follow your instincts and refrain from breeding your bitch.
I have a few questions of my own, and I hope you'll seriously consider the opinions I'm going to offer before you begin breeding cats.
I think your best course of action is to take a step back and learn more about dog breeding before you make a firm decision to breed your bitch.
Ideally, the best dogs win, and the lesser dogs are weeded out of future breeding programs.An AKC dog show is sanctioned by the American Kennel Club, the largest single registry for purebred dogs in the USA.
If a breeder shows his cats, he's likely to place a high priority on breeding good quality animals.
If tb reactors are found on a breeding farm, any cattle that have moved for finishing are traced and tested.
If TB reactors are found on a breeding farm, any cattle that have moved for finishing are traced and tested.
If you were breeding and showing the dog it would be different because then you would be accountable for all the stud services.
If you're going to have at least one of the dogs spayed/neutered to prevent a breeding, it really boils down to how well they get along.
If you're thinking about breeding cats, please consider the current surplus of felines without homes of their own.
In 1858 the methods of the Italian lakes were repeated at St Brieuc under the direction of Professor P. Coste, and from these experiments the art of artificial breeding as practised in France has been developed.
In 1958 its sponsored movie in 16mm color about the breeding of welsh corgis was screened privately for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
In addition to agriculture, the breeding of livestock, more especially sheep, camels, horses and asses, fishing in the waters of the lower Tarim, and the transportation of merchandise are all important means of livelihood.
In addition to agriculture, which (with the exception of the Usuri Cossacks) is sufficient to supply their needs and usually to leave a certain surplus, they"carry on extensive cattle and horse breeding, vine culture in Caucasia, fishing on the Don, the Ural, and the Caspian, hunting, bee-culture, &c. The extraction of coal, gold and other minerals which are found on their territories is mostly rented to strangers, who also own most factories.
In addition to the resident breeding birds during late summer wildfowl and waders start to appear.
In breeding coloration the male fish has a dark blotch at the rear of the first dorsal fin.
In Cambridgeshire, birds that start the breeding season with white feathering have either lost it or left the area by early April.
In conventional breeding by reproduction, only individuals from the same species or related species can be mated to produce offspring.
In England also, some bee-keepers include queen-rearing as part of their business, while one large apiary on the south coast is exclusively devoted to the rearing of queen bees on the latest scientific system, and to breeding by selection from such races as are most suited to the exceptional climatic conditions of the country.
In England, breeding hen harriers are restricted to upland heather moorlands.
In Ontario sheep breeding has reached a high degree of perfection, and other parts of the American continent draw their supplies of pure bred stock largely from this province.
In order to improve the condition of affairs in congested districts, the board was empowered (I) to amalgamate small holdings either by directly aiding migration or emigration of occupiers, or by recommending the Land Commission to facilitate amalgamation, and (2) generally to aid and develop out of its resources agriculture, forestry, the breeding of live-stock, weaving, spinning, fishing and any other suitable industries.
In private life his gaiety, his buoyancy, his high breeding, made even his political opponents forget their differences; and even the warmest altercations on public affairs were merged in his large hospitality and cordial social relations.
In the Alpine portions of the canton the breeding of cattle (those of the Simme valley are particularly famous) is the chief industry; next come the elaborate arrangements for summer travellers (the Fremdenindustrie).
In the breeding season much of its love-performance is exhibited on the ground, and the sounds to which it gives rise are of another character; but the exact way in which its "drumming" is effected has not been ascertained.
In the breeding season they resort to the most desolate lands in higher southern latitudes, and indeed have been met with as far to the southward as navigators have penetrated.
In the breeding season, many beginners start off by breeding Bengalese finches on a colony basis.
In the damp grasslands, breeding waders have also been recorded lapwing, curlew and snipe.
In the early spring stores must be seen to and replenished where required; breeding stimulated when pollen begins to be gathered; and appliances cleaned and prepared for use during the busy season.
In the mountainous region dairy-farming is carried on after the Alpine fashion and the breeding of sheep is improving.
In the North Pennines the SPA designation suggests there are nearly 4,000 pairs of breeding curlew.
In the temperate parts of the Old World this species is perhaps the most abundant of the plovers, Charadriidae, breeding in almost every suitable place from Ireland to Japan - the majority migrating towards winter to southern countries, as the Punjab, Egypt and Barbary - though in the British Islands some are always found at that season.
In the typical newts (Molge) of Europe, the males are adorned during the breeding season with bright colours and crests or other ornamental dermal appendages, and, resorting to the water, they engage in a lengthy courtship accompanied by lively evolutions around the females, near which they deposit their spermatozoa in bundles on a gelatinous mass, the spermatophore, probably secreted by the cloacal gland.
In this month breeding ewes recover condition and strength to withstand the winter storms. Ram auctions are on in September and draft ewe sales begin and continue through October.
In this type of dog breeding, dogs are selected for breeding based on their athletic abilities rather than their appearance and structure.
In very humid climates, periods of drought may turn rivers into strings of pools which are more conducive to vector breeding.
Increasing human activity in harbor could affect distribution and survival of offspring is vital during breeding season.
Information on pet and fancy mice, spiny mice and zebra mice - ranging from basic care, housing and handling to breeding.
Instead of acting as a little world by itself for the raising of corn, the breeding of cattle, the gathering of wool, the weaving of linen and common cloths, the fabrication of necessary implements of all kinds, the local group began to buy some of these goods and to sell some others, renouncing isolation and making its destiny dependent on commercial intercourse.
It flourishes best in small tanks and ponds, in which the water is constantly changing and does not freeze; in such localities, and with a full supply of food, which consists of weeds, crumbs of bread, bran, worms, small crustaceans and insects, it attains to a length of from 6 to 12 in., breeding readily, sometimes at different times of the same year.
It has been commonly believed to have two breeding-places in the British Islands, namely, St Kilda and South Barra; but, according to Robert Gray (Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 499), it has abandoned the latter since 1844, though still breeding in Skye.
It is a little surprising that after 50 years of breeding, the true albino Syrian hamster has yet to occur.
It is chiefly in the " flying " flocks and not in the breeding flocks that the disease is rife, and it is so easily communicable that a drove of scab-infested sheep passing along a road may leave behind them traces sufficient to set up the disorder in a drove of healthy sheep that may follow.
It is hoped that once completed these new reeds along with the existing ones will prove suitable for breeding bitterns.
It is now more famous for the Seal Reserve, a breeding ground for thousands of cape fur seals.
It is now more famous for the seal Reserve, a breeding ground for thousands of cape fur seals.
It is often seen on the shores of the Pacific, especially during the rainy season, but its favourite haunts for roosting and breeding are at elevations of 10,000 to 16,000 ft.
It is particularly noted for its populations of breeding snipe.
It is related to the Clun Forest and the Kerry Hill sheep. The draft ewes of all three breeds are in high demand for breeding to Down and longwool rams in the English midlands.
It is the most important site for breeding seabirds in the south Atlantic, and the main breeding site for the Tristan albatross.
It is the opinion of almost all who have studied the subject that any natural bed may in time be destroyed by overfishing (perhaps not by removing all the oysters, but by breaking up the colonies, and delivering over the territory which they once occupied to other kinds of animals), by burying the breeding oysters, by covering up the projections suitable for the reception of spat, and by breaking down, through the action of heavy dredges, the ridges which are especially fitted to be seats of the colonies.'
It makes its nest in burrows in the banks of streams, breeding once a year about the month of April, and producing five or six young at a birth.
It may be carried as a somatic character, when it will be visible in the body tissues, or it may be carried as a gametic character, and its presence can only then be detected in subsequent generations, by adequately devised breeding tests.
It represented an important breeding ground for frogs and was a definite feeding ground for owls and bats.
It was designated for its estuaries and adjacent coastal habitats, which are important for breeding gulls, terns and wintering waterfowl.
It was incorporated in 1878 to improve and promote the breeding of the Shire or old English race of cart-horses, and to effect the distribution of sound and healthy sires throughout the country.
It would be a good idea to have both animals thoroughly checked out by your vet prior to breeding.
It's truly a tragedy to see what selective breeding for the least desirable traits can do to any type of dog, and how it has marred the reputations of a number of very fine dog breeds.
Its current focus is on a genetics project aimed at improving the temperament of dog breeding stock.
Its geographical distribution is of the widest, and its rapidity of breeding, in manure and dooryard filth, so great that, as a carrier of germs of disease, especially cholera and typhoid, the house-fly is now recognized as a potent source of danger; and various sanitary regulations have been made, or precautions suggested, for getting rid of it.
Its lowered suspension and close-ratio gearbox echo its rally breeding.
Its objects to promote the breeding of the welsh foxhound in order that the distinctive national breed may be maintained on established lines.
John May was also very interested in plant breeding and raised many hybrid rhododendrons.
John May was also very interested in plant breeding and raised many hybrid Rhododendrons.
June may bring elegant visitors such as spoonbill, whilst the breeding birds include avocet, bittern and bearded tit.
Large trees with natural breeding cavities, usually woodpecker holes, have been virtually eliminated from the plains.
Let's begin with the breeding questions.
Listen to what she's trying to tell you, and forget about breeding her, or call your vet to schedule an appointment to bring the dogs in for an AI.
Live-stock breeding is extensively engaged in.
Livestock breeding is extensively pursued.
Livestock The station has a sheep flock of some 1600 breeding sheep.
Longline fishing for southern bluefin tuna also affects wandering albatrosses breeding on the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
Many develop contagious diseases, and indiscriminate breeding could mean that many animals have congenital and behavioral problems.
Maybe you have had an accidental breeding or adopted a cat who was pregnant.
More important is the breeding of a sturdy race of horses, thousands of which are annually exported.
Mudflats, sheltered bays and deep firths harbor good populations of migrant and breeding waders and wildfowl.
My recommendation is to enjoy your Shih Tzu just for her own charms; then if you're seriously interested in breeding, purchase a young healthy bitch from a breeder willing to be your mentor.
New irrigation schemes are also in place and new varieties of crops, successfully bred using participatory breeding techniques, are being grown.
New technologies in plant and animal breeding have increased the value of our genetic storehouses, rather than reducing our reliance.
Next in importance is the breeding of sheep, which is largely confined to the cooler sierra districts.
No gone from many tetrads occupied in the Essex Breeding Atlas.
Norwegian cat fanciers in Norway worked very hard to preserve this breed by introducing a very strict breeding program me.
Now he wants to try the breeding game one more time.
Now what you have in this kind of thing, said this sociologist, is breeding moody discontent.
Of course they need to be well washed and thoroughly disinfected, ideally at the end of the breeding season.
Of course, there are real fears that the National Scrapie Plan will destroy valuable sheep breeding bloodlines.
Of live stock, cattle, sheep and pigs are reared in considerable numbers, and great attention is paid to the breeding of horses.
On deeper water great crested and little grebes breed, breeding duck include gadwall and tufted duck.
On the average rather more than half the total of cattle is made up of store animals for fattening or breeding purposes, the fattening of Irish stores being a business of considerable magnitude in Norfolk and other counties.
On the ground that the aim of every prosperous community should be to have a large proportion of hardy country yeomen, and that horticulture and agriculture demand such a high ratio of labour, as compared with feeding and breeding cattle, that the country population would be greatly increased by the substitution of a fruit and vegetable for an animal dietary.
On the higher and colder plateaus much attention is given to the breeding of llamas and alpacas.
On the other side of the coin, some rare breeds do not wish to be recognized by the AKC, prefering to maintain their own breeding programs and sometimes holding their own dog show events.
Once this happens, the female goes out of heat and breeding activity ceases.
One Oriental species (Sciurus caniceps) presents almost the only known instance among mammals of the assumption during the breeding season of a distinctly ornamental coat, corresponding to the breeding plumage of birds.
Only a few breeding lapwing and snipe are recorded.
Originally developed for medical diagnosis, its potential has recently been recognized in the totally different area of sheep breeding.
Other breeding species whose young are ringed include Cormorant and Common Tern, which nest on islands in the lagoons.
Other historic industries of Lincolnshire are the breeding of horses and dogs and rabbitsnaring; the Witham was noted for its pike; and ironstone was worked in the south, now chiefly in the north and west.
Outside the breeding season newts live on land in moist damp areas.
Outside the breeding season this is a mainly solitary bird.
Over the next two years, there is to be a full census of breeding seabirds in Scilly.
Owing partly to unfavourable conditions of climate and soil, partly to the insufficiency of grazing ground, and partly to the want of selection in breeding, the general condition of the cattle is miserably poor.
Oxen were much prized, and breeding was carried on with a careful eye to selection.
Particular favorites for breeding amphibians include water crowfoot, water starwort, water forget-me-not and water mint.
Particularly high numbers of breeding lapwing have been recorded for the area east of the motorway.
Penguins are the most numerous birds breeding on the island at the present day.
People are breeding and selling potentially dangerous species including anacondas and pythons.
Perhaps the most explicit are our ringing numbers for our two breeding buntings.
Persians are one of the most popular cat breeds and there seems to be a lot of differing opinions on the topic of breeding.
Personally, I believe a dog should be given time to reach maturity before his energies are redirected into breeding, and then he should only be bred selectively a few times each year.
Photo courtesy RSPB Several nationally uncommon species occur on the heath including the Grayling butterfly, and breeding Stonechat, Dartford Warbler and Nightjar.
Possibly the initial use of sexed semen will be to use heifer semen in those herds breeding their own heifer replacements.
Puppy Farms are breeding facilities that produce purebred puppies in large numbers.
Puppy mills are commercial breeding factories for dogs and are one of the largest sources of dogs sold in pet stores.
Put to the Border Leicester ram the Cheviot ewe produces the Half-bred, which as a breeding ewe is unsurpassed as a rent-paying, arableland sheep.
Questions about dog breeding are common here at LoveToKnow.
Recent breeding successes also include bearded tit, water rail and cetti 's warbler.
Recent breeding successes also include bearded tit, water rail and cetti's warbler.
Refuse areas are the perfect breeding ground for all kinds of pests.
Regardless of your gender, your cat is treating you more like a breeding partner.
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Repeal of enactments relating to agriculture Repeal of Live Stock Breeding Act (Northern Ireland) 1922 18.
Rescue operation for stranded fish Work stops for breeding sand martin... Spotting Welsh wild life Five rescued from inflatables off R. .
Responsible breeding also involves spaying or neutering aggressive dogs rather than including them in a dog breeding program.
Responsible professional dog breeding involves providing a safe environment for the animals, knowledge of the breed, and taking steps to place the puppies in the right homes.
Results from the two breeding bird atlases have shown a significant spread northwards in England since the 1970s.
Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii have returned to the site after an absence of six years with 2 breeding pairs recorded for 1997.
Sandwich Terns exhibit the most erratic population trends and distribution of any seabird breeding in Britain and Ireland.
Scarcity of alpacas and demand for their luxury fiber has kept alpaca breeding and sales strong around the world.
Selective breeding of the Brown rat has produced the albino laboratory rat.
Selective breeding of the Brown Rat has produced the albino laboratory rat.
Setting aside those which are but occasional visitors to the British Islands, six species of terns may be regarded as indigenous, though of them one has ceased from ordinarily breeding in the United Kingdom, while a second has become so rare and regularly appears in so few places that mention of them must for prudence sake be avoided.
She checked a number of nests in the breeding season when the females lay, and then incubate, eggs.
She is 6 years old and has been taken slowly after breeding a foal.
She required hormone injections to initiate oestrus and was given the choice of mates (using an old-fashioned breeding technique ).
Sheep and goats are bred throughout the country; but the breeding of the beasts of burden (donkeys, horses, camels) is chiefly in the hands of the Bedouin.
Silkworm breeding, formerly a prosperous industry, has decayed, despite the encouragement of a state farm at New Marghelan.
Since bitches send down multiple eggs, it's very possible that the breeder could have witnessed the breeding with the named sire, and another male could have also bred the bitch by accident and unnoticed.
Since most people purchase cats as companions rather than show animals or for breeding programs, a pedigree may not be important.
Since when is it sound policy to provide a breeding ground and recruitment call for extremist nutters?
Small numbers of White-headed ducks were found breeding at 11 wetlands.
Some attention is given to the breeding of goats because of the local demand for their skins, but the industry is apparently stationary.
Some of the species are thoroughly aquatic and have fully webbed toes, others are terrestrial, except during the breeding season, others are adapted for burrowing, by means of the much-enlarged and sharp-edged tubercle at the base of the inner toe, whilst not a few have the tips of the digits dilated into disks by which they are able to climb on trees.
Some of these changes he supposed to have been the result of new conditions, including abundance of food and protection from enemies, but most he attributed to the accumulated results of selective breeding.
Species lost to Herefordshire in the last 25 years have included breeding corncrake and red-backed shrike.
Species such as breeding redshank, lapwing as well as migrant waders including oystercatcher and gray plover are all regularly sighted.
Sperm are viable up to five days after a breeding.
Spittle Mere also has a breeding colony of crested newts while the hawthorn scrub provides cover for nesting songbirds.
Stock-breeding, like agriculture, has considerably improved under the care of the government (state and provincial), which grants subsidies for breeding, irrigation of pasture-lands, the importation of finer breeds of cattle and horses, the erection of factories for dairy produce, schools, &c.
Stock-raising is favoured by the excellent grazing lands; blooded cattle are imported for breeding.
Such publications are a good breeding ground for new ideas but if starved of funds they too easily become extinct.
Swine are common to the whole country, and some attention has been given to the breeding of mules.
Tensions are high as the different races, religions and cultures seldom mix, breeding mistrust and fear of anything that is different.
Tern breeding populations can fluctuate among years owing to variations in the proportion of mature birds that attempt to nest.
Terrestrial habitat associated with the breeding areas is quarry spoil, early successional vegetation and surrounding pasture.
That experiments, founded on the study of his nature and properties, which have from time to time been made to improve the breed, and bring the different varieties to the perfection in which we now find them, have succeeded, is best confirmed by the high estimation in which the horses of Great Britain are held in all parts of the civilized world; and it is not too much to assert that, although the cold, humid and variable nature of their climate is by no means favourable to the production of these animals in their very best form, Englishmen have by great care, and by sedulous attention to breeding, high feeding and good grooming, with consequent development of muscle, brougnt them to the highest state of perfection of which their nature is capable.
That mares used in mule breeding are liable to be infected is still widely believed, but irrefragable evidence of the influence of the ass persisting, as Agassiz assumed, is conspicuous by its absence.
That said, this sounds like it may be your first breeding experience too, so I have some advice.
That said, you may not even have a problem if you do go through with the breeding, but I wanted you to understand the possible risks involved.
The .- trunk contains a spacious body-cavity filled during the breeding season by the swollen ovaries, and the same is true of the tail if we substitute testes for ovaries.
The " native " cattle, descended from those left on the islands by early navigators, are being improved by breeding with imported Hereford, Shorthorn, Angus and Holstein bulls, the Herefords being the best for the purpose.
The aim of the act was to prevent breeding from animals not calculated to produce the class of horse suited to the needs of the country.
The almost universal adoption of electrical traction in towns has not led to the abandonment of the breeding of horses to the extent that was at one time anticipated.
The American Shorthair is believed to be related to the British Shorthair, although time and selective breeding have created a character all its own.
The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires breeding operations to be licensed and lays out standards for their practices and conditions.
The asylum centers are the breeding places of rumors and idle gossip.
The availability of nest boxes was significantly greater in tetrads containing breeding Barn Owls than in those with no owls.
The basic nature of your school makes it the best breeding ground for new friends.
The basis of site selection for otter is mainly breeding holts or holt complexes, together with the immediate surroundings and cover.
The birds are still on Manor Farm, breeding, are totally self sufficient and now living as wild barn owls.
The birds form immense breeding colonies, known as "rookeries."
The bizarre warmth Zizek shows the skinhead comports with critical theory 's own irrational outbursts toward cultural studies, a breeding ground for particularization.
The bizarre warmth Zizek shows the skinhead comports with critical theory's own irrational outbursts toward cultural studies, a breeding ground for particularization.
The Born Free Foundation joins the RSPCA call for captive breeding programs to end.
The breeder should be knowledgeable about the breed's health problems, and be able to give you an idea of his breeding practices to lessen the prevalence of these conditions.
The breeding habits of the two well-known European species are highly interesting.
The breeding of cattle, adapted for the production of prime beef and of dairy cows for the production of milk, butter and cheese, has received much attention.
The breeding of cobs and ponies comes next in importance, and thirdly that of cattle, now mostly Herefords, though Speed mentions a native breed, long since extinct, all white with red ears.
The breeding of hackneys is extensively pursued in the counties of Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln and York, and in the showyard competitions a keen but friendly rivalry is usually to be noticed between the hackney-breeding farmers of Norfolk and Yorkshire.
The breeding of horses has attained a great perfection.
The breeding of horses is carried on to a very limited extent in Saxony.
The breeding of livestock (cattle, sheep and horses), is an important source of income.
The breeding of livestock, fishing, and some domestic trades, chiefly carried on by the women, are the principal sources of maintenance.
The breeding of pigs is also widely practised on the sand-grounds, as well as forest culture.
The breeding plan you're currently considering will not produce purebred cats, and your kittens will likely be less desirable to the buying public than a purebred kitten of either breed.
The breeding season is April, May and June.
The breeding season is from 1 May - 31 July.
The breeding season lasts throughout spring and summer, and the female is able to spawn two, three or even four times in the year.
The breeding season starts with the male birds coming ashore in September to build their nests of stones among the tussock grass.
The breeding you are describing would be considered a line breeding not an in-breeding.
The Bureau of Animal Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made experiments in breeding range sheep in Wyoming.
The bushy scrub provides shelter and food for migrating birds in spring and autumn and supports small numbers of breeding linnets and stonechats.
The canary readily imitates the notes of other birds, and in Germany and especially Tirol, where the breeding of canaries gives employment to a large number of people, they are usually placed for this purpose beside the nightingale.
The cattle stock has risen steadily, and a regular increase in the number under 2 years points to the healthy state of the breeding industry.
The chief breeding industry is that of the llama, alpaca and vicuiiaanimals of the Auchenia family domesticated by the Indians and bred, the first as a pack animal, and the other two for their wool, hides and meat.
The chief industries are the manufacture of woollens, cottons, silks, glass, laces, tobacco, straw-plait, paper, sugar and hemp, the breeding of silkworms, iron-founding and working, timber-cutting and shipbuilding.
The collection is not usually very rich in species, but there have been great and long-continued successes in the breeding of large animals such as hippopotamuses, lions and antelopes, and a very large business is done in domesticated birds, water-fowl and cage birds.
The consequence of this careful breeding is, that the women of Guayaquil are considered (and justly) the finest along the whole Pacific coast.
The creator of this breed, Paul Casey, next set about breeding the resulting kittens with a series of other cats to come up with the perfect look, feel and color pattern to the cat's coat.
The cry of the stags in the breeding season is also different.
The dry western plains are best adapted for sheep rearing, while the well-watered eastern regions are specially suitable for the growing of cereals and;also for horse breeding.
The ewes, although difficult to confine by ordinary fences, are in high favour in lowland districts for breeding fattening lambs to Down and other early maturity rams.
The export trade in cattle, sheep and pigs is practically restricted to pedigree animals required for breeding purposes, and though its aggregate value [[Table Xxvi]].-Quantities and Value of Home-bred Live Stock exported from the United Kingdom, 1900-1905.
The extensive coastal cliffs provide nest sites for a range of breeding seabirds including fulmars, guillemots, razorbills, puffins and kittiwakes.
The final lecture reviews our understanding of the effects of breeding systems on population demography.
The fish that are for sale with it are as follows breeding pair of... .. .
The following table shows the basic cross breeding pattern that results in a true Bengal Cat by the fourth generation.
The foreign market, however, was still open, and after the prohibition of the export of Irish cattle to England the Irish farmers turned their attention to the breeding of sheep, with such good effect that the woollen manufacture increased with great rapidity.
The genital papilla of the female acquires a great development during the breeding season and becomes produced into a tube nearly as long as the fish itself; this acts as an ovipositor by means of which the comparatively few and large eggs (3 millimetres in diameter) are introduced through the gaping valves between the branchiae of pond mussels (Unio and Anodonta), where, after being inseminated, they undergo their development, the fry leaving their host about a month later.
The government is seeking to promote the industry through the importation of breeding mares from Argentina.
The heather uplands and peat moors form part of a Special Protection Area, that is of international importance for breeding birds.
The highlight so far has been its success in attracting Walesâs first pair of breeding avocets.
The Hunters Improvement Society, established in 1885, did not restrict entries to the Hunters' Stud-Book to entirely clean-bred animals, but admitted those with breeding enough to pass strict inspection.
The Indian wars, breeding a habit of dependence on force, and the heterogeneous elements of cattle thieves, Sonoran cowboys, mine labourers and adventurers led to one of the worst periods of American border history.
The indiscriminate slaughter of fry, and the obstacles opposed by irrigation dams to breeding fish, are said to be causing a sensible diminution in the supply in certain rivers.
The introduction of carriages and the invention of gunpowder thus opened out a new industry in breeding; and a decided change was gradually creeping on by the time that James I.
The island also supports a high density of breeding waders, with 67 pairs being recorded in 1987.
The large amounts of ammonia in the slurry become breeding ground for bacteria, which turn it into acid.
The last census also provided the first reliable estimates of the number of breeding petrels and shearwaters, using recently developed techniques.
The leading industry is the breeding of silkworms and the spinning of silk.
The Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) is one of Britain 's rarest breeding seabirds.
The Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) is one of Britain's rarest breeding seabirds.
The loss of breeding skylarks from at least one site in Darwen followed amenity tree-planting to ' improve the environment ' .
The loss of breeding skylarks from at least one site in Darwen followed amenity tree-planting to ' improve the environment '.
The Lune catchment is known to support breeding otters.
The main interest relevant to the designation is the nationally important colony of breeding cormorants.
The majority of members in the MV accreditation scheme are pedigree breeders who sell quality, healthy breeding stock at premium prices.
The most recent breeding survey results indicate that the yellowhammer population is now lower than at any time in the past thirty years.
The nearest breeding Cattle egrets are in the Baie de Somme.
The network of shallow and still limans or "cut-offs" in the delta of the Volga and the shallow waters of the northern Caspian, freshened as these are by the water of the Volga, the Ural, the Kura and the Terek, is exceedingly favourable to the breeding of fish, and as a whole constitutes one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world.
The nightjar, now considered a subspecies of Rufous Nightjar, is rarely seen outside of the breeding season.
The nobility remained- in debt and disaffected; and the clergy, more Grit kisn remarkable for wealth and breeding than for virtues, of Henry were won over to the ultramontane ideas of the IV.
The organic movement had already said that it was content with marker assisted breeding.
The plains, also, were suited to the breeding of horses, and consequently the force in which the Thessalian nation was strong was cavalry, a kind of troops which has usually been associated with oligarchy.
The platypus is aquatic in its habits, passing most of its time in the water or close to the margin of lakes and streams, swimming and diving with the greatest ease, and forming for the purpose of sleeping and breeding deep burrows in the banks, which generally have two orifices, one just above the water level, concealed among long grass and leaves, and the other below the surface.
The problem is, other than being a dog lover for life and previous owner of many wonderful large dogs since childhood, I know nothing about breeding.
The program was inspired by Noyes ' theology of Perfectionism, Plato's Republic, agricultural selective breeding and concerns about human heredity.
The quality of the pups goes down as the numbers go up because these breeders are breeding for a quick cash return, not healthy pups of quality and type.
The rapid progress in genomics will transform plant, tree and livestock breeding.
The recent hot summers have been good for breeding with the largest ever number of burrows recorded in 1996.
The results from any breeding are always a gamble; but if both animals are healthy and you have definite homes for the offspring, then you might go ahead and try it.
The Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, founded in 1830, maintains a fine collection in the Phoenix Park at Dublin, and has been specially successful in the breeding of lions.
The same should be done for the plant breeding study.
The seals (Pinnipedia) although capable of traversing long reaches of ocean, are less truly aquatic than the last two groups, always resorting to the land or to ice-floes for breeding.
The skin is smooth and may look slightly velvety outside the breeding season.
The smaller size of the flocks and the breeding of sheep for meat rather than for wool, the cultivation of English grasses and of extensive crops of turnips and other roots on which to fatten sheep and lambs, all tend to change sheep-farming from the mere grazing of huge mobs on wide, unimproved runs held by pastoral licences.
The song and insectivorous birds - thrushes, flycatchers, vireos and woodpeckers - of this latitude, are well represented, and the high plateaus (particularly the Pocono plateau) have especial ornithological interest as the tarrying-places, during the migratory seasons, of many species of birds whose natural breeding ground is much farther north.
The sows are quite as prolific as those of the Large White breed, and, as their produce matures earlier, they are much in demand for breeding porkers.
The special characteristic of the breed is that the ewes take the ram at an unusually early period of the year, and cast ewes are in demand for breeding house lamb for Christmas.
The surrounding country is devoted largely to the cultivation of tobacco, Indian corn and wheat, and the breeding of fine horses and cattle; and Richmond is an important live-stock market.
The survey was carried out in sheep flocks with 30 or more breeding ewes.
The third breeding seabird species is Newell's Shearwater.
The thoroughbred Kentucky horse has long had a world-wide reputation for speed; and the Blue Grass Region, especially Fayette, Bourbon and Woodford counties, is probably the finest horse-breeding region in America and has large breeding farms. In Fayette county, in 1900, the average value of colts between the ages of one and two years was $377.78.
The turnstone (Strepsilas interpres) arrives in the islands in August after breeding in Alaska.
The two BTO breeding bird Atlases indicated that a 29% contraction in range occurred in Britain between the late 1960s and early 1990s.
The type of breeding that most people are aware of is conformation breeding.
The Uists and Benbecula are noted for their breeding mute swan and greylag geese as well as whooper swans and white-fronted geese and duck.
The UK National scrapie Plan aims to eradicate scrapie from sheep flocks via the selective breeding of disease-resistant animals.
The UK National Scrapie Plan aims to eradicate scrapie from sheep flocks via the selective breeding of disease-resistant animals.
The United States, nevertheless, insisted that such prohibition was indispensable on the grounds - (t) that pelagic sealing involved the destruction of breeding stock, because it was practically impossible to distinguish between the male and female seal when in the water; (2) that it was unnecessarily wasteful, inasmuch as a large proportion of the seals so killed were lost.
The waters off the beach were also a breeding ground for bronze whaler sharks, he said.
The wide distribution of certain species is undoubtedly attributable to the agency of ships and trains; under natural conditions mosquitoes seldom travel far from their breeding grounds, although the powers of flight of some species are greater than has been supposed.
The woodland supports a diverse breeding bird community, including hawfinch and wood warbler.
The work of the live-stock branch is directed towards the improvement of the stock-raising industry, and is carried on through the agencies of expert teachers and stock judges, the systematic distribution of pure-bred breeding stock, the yearly testing of pure-bred dairy herds, the supervision of the accuracy of the registration of pure-bred animals and the nationalization of live-stock records.
The Zoo has received national recognition for its success in breeding cheetahs, polar bears and lowland gorillas.
Their breeding program consists of dogs who are excellent specimens of the breed.
Their chief occupations are agriculture (about 3,500,000 acres under culture), cattle breeding, bee-keeping, mining, gathering of cedar-nuts and hunting.
Their chief occupations were agriculture and cattle breeding; horses were mainly used as draught animals.
Their north Atlantic breeding populations are estimated to have declined by about 90 per cent in the last 20 years.
Then indisciminant breeders seeking to get in on the gravy train begin acquiring specimens for mass breeding, in order to cash in while the popularity lasts.
There are also Little and great bitterns here, together with breeding marsh terns.
There are also shallow inlets where whale sharks annually visit for breeding.
There are different styles of riding adapted to the different purposes for which horses are ridden - on the road, in the school, hunting, racing, steeple-chasing and in the cavalry service - just as there are different horses more suitable by conformation, breeding and training for each.
There are many factors to consider when breeding Persians or any breed of cat.
There are more native species of bat in the UK -- 16 breeding and several vagrant visitors -- than any other group of mammals.
There is a breeding establishment for leeches.
There is good shooting (doves, quail, wild turkey and deer) in the vicinity; there are fine golf links and there is a large ranch for breeding and training polo ponies.
There is here a denser population, occupied in the cultivation of wheat, beetroot and fruit, the breeding of excellent cattle, shipping and industrial pursuits.
There is information on avian breeding, nutrition of primates, snakes, iguanas, marmoset and tamarin care, and reptile aggression.
There were three distant cattle egrets across the estuary, two in full breeding plumage.
There'll be Slavonian Grebe with Red-throated and Black-throated Diver, often still in their breeding finery.
Therefore, the challenge has been to either isolate a cat breed that proved to be hypoallergenic, or create one through selective breeding or other means.
These are all fatal diseases which can be passed from one cat to the other during breeding.
These businesses will not meet the characteristics of responsible breeding discussed in the previous section.
These cows, as breeding cows, will play an important role in helping pastoralists to restock their herds.
These grasslands also provide feeding or breeding habitat for a number of scarce or declining birds including the skylark.
These males are your key to breeding black tortoiseshell females.
These people will never get rich from breeding tortoises.
These sheer, bare sea cliffs are home to colonies of breeding seabirds including guillemots, shags and kittiwakes.
These tracts remain still, as of old, sparsely inhabited and given over to the breeding of stock and the pursuit of game.
These, however, were ere long rivalled and afterwards superseded by the Shorthorn or Durham breed, which the brothers Charles and Robert Coiling obtained from the useful race of cattle that had long existed in the valley of the Tees, by applying to them the principle of breeding which Bakewell had already established.
They had figured out how to get milk out of water buffalo by breeding a new kind of water buffalo.
They might also reveal which regions of the world, or period in history are of specific interest for wheat breeding.
They must also import cats from outside catteries to expand their breeding lines.
They then progress to keeping and breeding birds in a small aviary in the garden, often attached to the garden shed or garage.
Think about the interests of wildlife and local people before passing on news of a rare bird, especially during the breeding season.
This breeding produced two more curly coated kittens.
This can help you gauge whether or not the animal you are considering comes from a healthy breeding line.
This estate is the only grouse moor to have breeding hen harriers recorded by the project every year.
This has the added benefit of making sure your pet doesn't become involved in an unwanted breeding.
This included slaughtering the progeny of affected animals and restricting breeding from the progeny of affected animals.
This is a species of comparatively limited range, breeding only in some two or three localities in the Shetlands, about half a dozen in the Faeroes, 3 and hardly more in Iceland.
This is yet another reason why responsible breeding practices are a must, and people who purchase or adopt dogs do so fully aware of the breed characteristics.
This last, though less numerous than its congener, seems to range over the whole of the continent, breeding in the extreme north, while it has been obtained also in the Strait of Magellan and the Falkland Islands.
This means that dogs included in your breeding program should be selected carefully to not pass on undesirable characteristics to future generations.
This record of height, with other particulars as to breeding, &c., serves to direct breeders in their choice of sires and dams. The standard of height established by the Hackney Horse Society was accepted and officially recognized by the Royal Agricultural Society in 1889, when the prize-list for the Windsor show contained pony classes for animals not exceeding 14 hands.
This society acts in consort with two other powerful organizations (the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, which began its work in 1888, and the Brood Mare Society, established in 1903), with the desirable object of improving the standard of light horse breeding.
This type of breeding is done to produce dogs that closely conform to the standards for their breed as defined by the registering body.
This was found breeding in the extreme north of Siberia by Dr von Middendorff, and ranges to Australia, whence it was, like the last, first described by Gould.
This will eliminate wasting a breeding opportunity if in fact the dog has limited fertility.
Those who participate in dog sports such as agility or flyball understand the importance of breeding for performance.
Those who were unwilling to accept evolution, without better grounds than such as are offered by Lamarck, and who therefore preferred to suspend their judgment on the question, found in the principle of selective breeding, pursued in all its applications with marvellous knowledge and skill by Darwin, a valid explanation of the occurrence of varieties and races; and they saw clearly that, if the explanation would apply to species, it would not only solve the problem of their evolution, but that it would account for the facts of teleology, as well as for those of morphology; and for the persistence of some forms of life unchanged through long epochs of time, while others undergo comparatively rapid metamorphosis.
Though sometimes assembling in troops of from thirty to fifty, and then generally associating with zebras or with some of the larger antelopes, ostriches commonly, and especially in the breeding season, live in companies of not more than four or five, one of which is a cock and the rest are hens.
Thus this project argues that far from breeding intolerance, realism is actually required for tolerance to be present.
Thus Williams has observed that if we find a species breeding perfectly true we can conceive it to have reached the end of its racial life period.
To the latter belong the Greenshank and Redshank, as well as the Common Sandpiper, the " Summer-Snipe " above-mentioned, a bird hardly exceeding a skylark in size, and of very general distribution throughout the British Islands, but chiefly frequenting clear streams, especially those with a gravelly or rocky bottom, and mast generally breeding on the beds of sand or shingle on their banks.
Trapped moisture on the floor covering is a breeding ground for micro-organisms.
Turf-cutting, coarse lace-making and the breeding of canaries and native song-birds also occupy many of the people.
Turkey had set up controlled breeding programs because it considered this breed a national treasure.
Two crops of lambs in a year are sometimes obtained from the ewes, although it does not pay to keep such rapid breeding up regularly.
Unfortunately, some businesses that sell purebred or popular designer breed dogs are not always equipped to follow proper breeding techniques.
Unglazed ceramic or stoneware dishes can easily trap small particles of food along their rough exteriors, thereby encouraging the breeding of harmful bacteria.
Unless you have some specific ideas about breeding, either sex makes a nice pet.
Unless you were breeding them, what difference did it make?
Unoccupied territory may, however, be prepared for the reception of new beds, by spreading sand, gravel and shells over muddy bottoms, or, indeed, beds may be kept up in locations for permanent natural beds, by putting down mature oysters and cultch just before the time of breeding, thus giving the young a chance to fix themselves before the currents and enemies have had time to accomplish much in the way of destruction.
Until 1995, the numbers of breeding guillemots and razorbills on their sea cliff nest sites had been increasing in south west Wales.
Upon this, in fact, depends the whole future of the industry, since it is not probable that any system of artificial breeding can be devised which will render it possible to keep up a supply without at least occasional recourse to seed oysters produced under natural conditions.
Using a common theme makes it easy for the breeder to recall exactly which breeding a particular puppy came from.
Using the scientific technology of gene sequencing and careful breeding programs, Lifestyle Pets successfully developed cats with naturally occurring genetic divergences.
Vets also do not recommend breeding a bitch on an induced heat.
Volunteers assist in the feeding and care of breeding caimans and iguanas.
Wallace, who has studied those birds in their native haunts, that they assume the perfect plumage of their sex, which, however, they retain permanently afterwards, and not during the breeding season only as was formerly supposed.
We also saw a pair of gray wagtails, in very smart fresh breeding plumage, running about in the shallows chasing insects.
We are unaware of previous breeding in the Madeira archipelago.
We bred our dog three days in a row, so this would now be her 68th day from the last breeding.
We did not see the whooper swan, which has been breeding there.
We have albatrosses breeding all over the island too - wandering albatrosses with a wingspan of 2.5 meters !
We have had a lot of success in breeding other lemur species and hope that the Red-fronted lemur species and hope that the Red-fronted lemurs will also breed well at Colchester.
We have had a lot of success in breeding other lemur species and hope that the Red-fronted lemurs will also breed well at Colchester.
We have traveled extensively to the North West Pacific in the USA and Canada to obtain our breeding stock.
We produce an annual breeding bird indicator for 15 species in the boro.
We viewed the breeding colony on Tresco from close quarters on 12th.
Were acquired (superimposed) characters really transmissible by breeding, then every child born would inherit, more or less completely, the knowledge acquired by both its parents.
What are this vet's views on dog breeding, spaying and neutering?
Wheat, rye and barley are the principal crops grown, and the breeding of cattle is an important industry.
When in full breeding regalia the male has a black head, chest, back and tail with pure white flanks.
Whether you breed for conformance, performance or any other reason, it is important to practice responsible breeding.
Whichever alternative you choose, for stimulation, the breeding birds need to hear the chatter of the others.
While it's great to have high hopes for the perfect holiday, this can be a breeding ground for disappointment.
Whilst male frogs make a quiet, low-pitched call during the breeding season, toads make a louder, higher croak.
White German Shepherds are a subject of controversy within the breeding world.
Why not curb the breeding ability of the male cubs, leaving only a small number to reproduce?
With a virtual pet, everything you do to take care of it is on the computer, whether that's feeding your pet, walking it, training it and even breeding it, depending on the game.
With good management twenty ewes of any of the lowland breeds should produce and rear thirty lambs, and the proportion can be increased by breeding from ewes with a prolific tendency.
With the object of preserving to England whatever advantages might accrue from her care and skill in breeding an improved stamp of horses, Edward III.
With very careful and selective breeding, the crossed eyes and kinked tails of Siamese cats, which are considered undesirable traits, have been almost completely bred out.
Woodchester Mansion is one of only 19 breeding sites for the greater horseshoe in Britain.
Would it be 67 days from the first breeding or the last, because you won't know which day she took on.
You can keep pets for yourself without all of the extra work and veterinary bills that breeding entails.
You should also be aware that breeding could also alter his behavior, leading to marking and aggression problems.
Your dog sounds like a lovely pet, but there are risks involved with breeding.