Breeding Sentence Examples

Unless you were breeding them, what difference did it make?

The breeding of horses has attained a great perfection.

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.

Breeding is unregulated and natural selection prevails.

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.

Now he wants to try the breeding game one more time.

But the breeding of horses and sheep is of equal importance with agriculture.

Numberless aquatic birds visit it for breeding purposes.

Oxen were much prized, and breeding was carried on with a careful eye to selection.

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 government is seeking to promote the industry through the importation of breeding mares from Argentina.

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 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.

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 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.

During the first year of their existence, before the breeding season begins, they live in small companies in still pools or gently flowing brooks.

Breeding males are readily recognized at a distance by the intensely black colour of the lower parts of their body.

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.

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.

The breeding of livestock, fishing, and some domestic trades, chiefly carried on by the women, are the principal sources of maintenance.

Live-stock breeding is extensively engaged in.

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 breeding of horses is carried on to a very limited extent in Saxony.

Hybrids are also common, the canary breeding freely with the siskin, goldfinch, citril, greenfinch and linnet.

The breeding season is April, May and June.

They might also reveal which regions of the world, or period in history are of specific interest for wheat breeding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

The breeding habits of the two well-known European species are highly interesting.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Next in importance is the breeding of sheep, which is largely confined to the cooler sierra districts.

Some attention is given to the breeding of goats because of the local demand for their skins, but the industry is apparently stationary.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The turnstone (Strepsilas interpres) arrives in the islands in August after breeding in Alaska.

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.

He was a man of strong personality, of measured utterance, "civil" (says Penn) "beyond all forms of breeding."

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.

In the mountainous region dairy-farming is carried on after the Alpine fashion and the breeding of sheep is improving.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The leading industry is the breeding of silkworms and the spinning of silk.

The breeding of livestock (cattle, sheep and horses), is an important source of income.

The breeding season lasts throughout spring and summer, and the female is able to spawn two, three or even four times in the year.

As a rule, sheep-farming is resorted to where the soil is of inferior quality and unsuitable for tillage and the breeding of cattle.

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.

Breeding swine, male and female, run most of their time at pasture and receive a liberal allowance of green food or raw roots.

The breeding of pigs is also widely practised on the sand-grounds, as well as forest culture.

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.

More important is the breeding of a sturdy race of horses, thousands of which are annually exported.

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.

These tracts remain still, as of old, sparsely inhabited and given over to the breeding of stock and the pursuit of game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Having inherited a fortune, he bought land in Apulia and Calabria and devoted himself to breeding race-horses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Bureau of Animal Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made experiments in breeding range sheep in Wyoming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The consequence of this careful breeding is, that the women of Guayaquil are considered (and justly) the finest along the whole Pacific coast.

Their chief occupations were agriculture and cattle breeding; horses were mainly used as draught animals.

Excellent wheat is grown in the vicinity, while another industry is the breeding of cattle.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the higher and colder plateaus much attention is given to the breeding of llamas and alpacas.

Another industry of a different character is that of breeding the fur-bearing chinchilla (C. laniger), which is a native of the higher plateaus.

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.

Their chief occupations are agriculture (about 3,500,000 acres under culture), cattle breeding, bee-keeping, mining, gathering of cedar-nuts and hunting.

Wheat, rye and barley are the principal crops grown, and the breeding of cattle is an important industry.

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.

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.

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.

The cry of the stags in the breeding season is also different.

Silkworm breeding, formerly a prosperous industry, has decayed, despite the encouragement of a state farm at New Marghelan.

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.

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.

Swine are common to the whole country, and some attention has been given to the breeding of mules.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Turf-cutting, coarse lace-making and the breeding of canaries and native song-birds also occupy many of the people.

Livestock breeding is extensively pursued.

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.

Stock-raising is favoured by the excellent grazing lands; blooded cattle are imported for breeding.

Of live stock, cattle, sheep and pigs are reared in considerable numbers, and great attention is paid to the breeding of horses.

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.

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.

There is a breeding establishment for leeches.

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.

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.

Driven by the Caroline legislation against cattle into breeding 'a!

Currie was joined, however, by two' other men and they busied themselves in growing vegetables, wheat and oats, and in breeding pigs.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is here a denser population, occupied in the cultivation of wheat, beetroot and fruit, the breeding of excellent cattle, shipping and industrial pursuits.

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.

Horse breeding and cattle raising form the chief source of wealth in the province.

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.

The birds form immense breeding colonies, known as "rookeries."

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.

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.

Breeding is usually in the autumn; the eggs become attached to the underside of the female's abdomen.

It is the most important site for breeding seabirds in the south Atlantic, and the main breeding site for the Tristan albatross.

Longline fishing for southern bluefin tuna also affects wandering albatrosses breeding on the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.

It is a little surprising that after 50 years of breeding, the true albino Syrian hamster has yet to occur.

Scarcity of alpacas and demand for their luxury fiber has kept alpaca breeding and sales strong around the world.

People are breeding and selling potentially dangerous species including anacondas and pythons.

We are unaware of previous breeding in the Madeira archipelago.

Do you think artificial insemination will ever play a part in the thoroughbred breeding industry?

Artificial breeding techniques Up to 75% of dairy cows in the UK are impregnated by artificial insemination (AI ).

The two BTO breeding bird Atlases indicated that a 29% contraction in range occurred in Britain between the late 1960s and early 1990s.

They then progress to keeping and breeding birds in a small aviary in the garden, often attached to the garden shed or garage.

June may bring elegant visitors such as spoonbill, whilst the breeding birds include avocet, bittern and bearded tit.

The highlight so far has been its success in attracting Walesâs first pair of breeding avocets.

The birds are still on Manor Farm, breeding, are totally self sufficient and now living as wild barn owls.

Think about the interests of wildlife and local people before passing on news of a rare bird, especially during the breeding season.

We produce an annual breeding bird indicator for 15 species in the boro.

It is hoped that once completed these new reeds along with the existing ones will prove suitable for breeding bitterns.

There are also Little and great bitterns here, together with breeding marsh terns.

Of course, there are real fears that the National Scrapie Plan will destroy valuable sheep breeding bloodlines.

A great asset to our breeding program and her very old bloodlines will be preserved for years to come.

The majority of members in the MV accreditation scheme are pedigree breeders who sell quality, healthy breeding stock at premium prices.

The organic movement had already said that it was content with marker assisted breeding.

Both changes had been brought about by careful selective breeding.

The Born Free Foundation joins the RSPCA call for captive breeding programs to end.

In conventional breeding by reproduction, only individuals from the same species or related species can be mated to produce offspring.

Many develop contagious diseases, and indiscriminate breeding could mean that many animals have congenital and behavioral problems.

The same should be done for the plant breeding study.

The rapid progress in genomics will transform plant, tree and livestock breeding.

For years, breeders have used " mutation breeding " to develop new varieties.

A Tradition of Genetic Improvement The UK is the birthplace of modern scientific pig breeding.

Originally developed for medical diagnosis, its potential has recently been recognized in the totally different area of sheep breeding.

Refuse areas are the perfect breeding ground for all kinds of pests.

It represented an important breeding ground for frogs and was a definite feeding ground for owls and bats.

They had figured out how to get milk out of water buffalo by breeding a new kind of water buffalo.

Perhaps the most explicit are our ringing numbers for our two breeding buntings.

Volunteers assist in the feeding and care of breeding caimans and iguanas.

Whichever alternative you choose, for stimulation, the breeding birds need to hear the chatter of the others.

The Zoo has received national recognition for its success in breeding cheetahs, polar bears and lowland gorillas.

However, I hope that it may explain some things for people new to breeding chinchillas.

Because of the superior quality of the dilute to the clearwing many clearwing breeders find the dilute of valuable asset in their breeding program.

I am hand rearing cockatiels all during the breeding season, and have 2 being reared at present.

By undermining social cohesion, inequality provides a breeding ground for crime and disorder.

We viewed the breeding colony on Tresco from close quarters on 12th.

A breeding colony was established by a single pair in 1988.

In breeding coloration the male fish has a dark blotch at the rear of the first dorsal fin.

In 1958 its sponsored movie in 16mm color about the breeding of welsh corgis was screened privately for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

The main interest relevant to the designation is the nationally important colony of breeding cormorants.

Species lost to Herefordshire in the last 25 years have included breeding corncrake and red-backed shrike.

Whilst male frogs make a quiet, low-pitched call during the breeding season, toads make a louder, higher croak.

Particular favorites for breeding amphibians include water crowfoot, water starwort, water forget-me-not and water mint.

All showed a similar response, indicating that tolerance to ozone may not be an option in breeding improved cultivars.

Why not curb the breeding ability of the male cubs, leaving only a small number to reproduce?

In the North Pennines the SPA designation suggests there are nearly 4,000 pairs of breeding curlew.

Penguins are the most numerous birds breeding on the island at the present day.

The final lecture reviews our understanding of the effects of breeding systems on population demography.

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.

Small numbers of White-headed ducks were found breeding at 11 wetlands.

Duroc boars are used as natural servers as a back up to AI, with all selected breeding sows reared at Harnhill.

There were three distant cattle egrets across the estuary, two in full breeding plumage.

The nearest breeding Cattle egrets are in the Baie de Somme.

Animals 250 breeding mule ewes are reared at Doves Farm.

The survey was carried out in sheep flocks with 30 or more breeding ewes.

Norwegian cat fanciers in Norway worked very hard to preserve this breed by introducing a very strict breeding program me.

In Cambridgeshire, birds that start the breeding season with white feathering have either lost it or left the area by early April.

In the breeding season, many beginners start off by breeding Bengalese finches on a colony basis.

There'll be Slavonian Grebe with Red-throated and Black-throated Diver, often still in their breeding finery.

Mudflats, sheltered bays and deep firths harbor good populations of migrant and breeding waders and wildfowl.

Livestock The station has a sheep flock of some 1600 breeding sheep.

She is 6 years old and has been taken slowly after breeding a foal.

Its objects to promote the breeding of the welsh foxhound in order that the distinctive national breed may be maintained on established lines.

The extensive coastal cliffs provide nest sites for a range of breeding seabirds including fulmars, guillemots, razorbills, puffins and kittiwakes.

It is now more famous for the Seal Reserve, a breeding ground for thousands of cape fur seals.

On deeper water great crested and little grebes breed, breeding duck include gadwall and tufted duck.

Its lowered suspension and close-ratio gearbox echo its rally breeding.

At the same time those animals which show the most susceptible genotype will be removed from the breeding program.

Breeding non-spotted gerbils together will never produce white spotted gerbils.

The asylum centers are the breeding places of rumors and idle gossip.

The breeding season starts with the male birds coming ashore in September to build their nests of stones among the tussock grass.

The availability of nest boxes was significantly greater in tetrads containing breeding Barn Owls than in those with no owls.

Guillemots are extremely gregarious, colonial breeding is the norm and colonies can contain many tens of thousands of individuals.

The large amounts of ammonia in the slurry become breeding ground for bacteria, which turn it into acid.

These sheer, bare sea cliffs are home to colonies of breeding seabirds including guillemots, shags and kittiwakes.

Until 1995, the numbers of breeding guillemots and razorbills on their sea cliff nest sites had been increasing in south west Wales.

It was designated for its estuaries and adjacent coastal habitats, which are important for breeding gulls, terns and wintering waterfowl.

Breeding The ideal age for the female Dwarf Russian hamster to start breeding is between 3 and 4 months of age.

This estate is the only grouse moor to have breeding hen harriers recorded by the project every year.

In England, breeding hen harriers are restricted to upland heather moorlands.

The woodland supports a diverse breeding bird community, including hawfinch and wood warbler.

Possibly the initial use of sexed semen will be to use heifer semen in those herds breeding their own heifer replacements.

The program was inspired by Noyes ' theology of Perfectionism, Plato's Republic, agricultural selective breeding and concerns about human heredity.

British Waterways has constructed an otter holt from logs to encourage otters to return to the canal for breeding.

The basis of site selection for otter is mainly breeding holts or holt complexes, together with the immediate surroundings and cover.

Woodchester Mansion is one of only 19 breeding sites for the greater horseshoe in Britain.

In very humid climates, periods of drought may turn rivers into strings of pools which are more conducive to vector breeding.

Control of flies outdoors in their breeding areas is considered impractical.

She checked a number of nests in the breeding season when the females lay, and then incubate, eggs.

There are also shallow inlets where whale sharks annually visit for breeding.

Thus this project argues that far from breeding intolerance, realism is actually required for tolerance to be present.

By 2000, the Welsh countryside supported an estimated 260 breeding pairs - representing almost 1,000 individual birds, including juveniles.

Registers of licenses, guard dog kennels and breeding establishments 15.

Particularly high numbers of breeding lapwing have been recorded for the area east of the motorway.

In the damp grasslands, breeding waders have also been recorded lapwing, curlew and snipe.

Despite disturbance from cutting, the lowland bogs are important for breeding waders lapwing, snipe and curlew have been recorded.

Only a few breeding lapwing and snipe are recorded.

April 2006 Staff at Folly Farm's zoo are ecstatic this Easter, with the successful breeding of their endangered lemurs.

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 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.

Furthermore, smooth brome grass clones selected using conventional breeding showed that reduced lignin was associated with severe rust fungus disease [23] .

The bushy scrub provides shelter and food for migrating birds in spring and autumn and supports small numbers of breeding linnets and stonechats.

Explain how an animal breeder in the learner's locality selects animals from which to breed, for a commercial breeding program.

Amphibians are quite long-lived, and can afford to miss an occasional breeding season.

A neutered male will be able to have other rabbit friends, without fear of agression or breeding.

Details of article Assessing what factors affect marmosets breeding success by Sharyn Amos.

Rescue operation for stranded fish Work stops for breeding sand martin... Spotting Welsh wild life Five rescued from inflatables off R. .

Tensions are high as the different races, religions and cultures seldom mix, breeding mistrust and fear of anything that is different.

House dust mites find a mattress the perfect breeding ground.

Trapped moisture on the floor covering is a breeding ground for micro-organisms.

The heather uplands and peat moors form part of a Special Protection Area, that is of international importance for breeding birds.

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.

Outside the breeding season newts live on land in moist damp areas.

Results from the two breeding bird atlases have shown a significant spread northwards in England since the 1970s.

Since when is it sound policy to provide a breeding ground and recruitment call for extremist nutters?

She required hormone injections to initiate oestrus and was given the choice of mates (using an old-fashioned breeding technique ).

A recently added bonus of exotic trees is the now thriving colonies of breeding golden orioles in Suffolk.

The Lune catchment is known to support breeding otters.

Species such as breeding redshank, lapwing as well as migrant waders including oystercatcher and gray plover are all regularly sighted.

The fish that are for sale with it are as follows breeding pair of... .. .

Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii have returned to the site after an absence of six years with 2 breeding pairs recorded for 1997.

For many years feral or escaped ring-necked parakeets have actually been breeding around the London suburbs.

New irrigation schemes are also in place and new varieties of crops, successfully bred using participatory breeding techniques, are being grown.

These cows, as breeding cows, will play an important role in helping pastoralists to restock their herds.

The last census also provided the first reliable estimates of the number of breeding petrels and shearwaters, using recently developed techniques.

Climate change Changes in migration and breeding phenology evident in many species.

A green sandpiper feed busily from the gravely beach, which will soon provide breeding areas for little ring plover and common sandpiper.

Carry all of their breeding plumage we won't have.

Their north Atlantic breeding populations are estimated to have declined by about 90 per cent in the last 20 years.

Due to selective breeding, most pedigree dog breeds are genetically predisposed to suffer.

This included slaughtering the progeny of affected animals and restricting breeding from the progeny of affected animals.

Between the quota system areas and the free breeding areas raptors would continue to thrive and damage would be down to a minimum.

Selective breeding of the Brown rat has produced the albino laboratory rat.

If tb reactors are found on a breeding farm, any cattle that have moved for finishing are traced and tested.

When in full breeding regalia the male has a black head, chest, back and tail with pure white flanks.

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John May was also very interested in plant breeding and raised many hybrid rhododendrons.

Changes in the roofs of two nursery roosts have improved the environment for the bats during the breeding season.

During the breeding season, a male will make several shallow nest scrapes in a well guarded territory.

The UK National scrapie Plan aims to eradicate scrapie from sheep flocks via the selective breeding of disease-resistant animals.

Over the next two years, there is to be a full census of breeding seabirds in Scilly.

The Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) is one of Britain's rarest breeding seabirds.

The third breeding seabird species is Newell's Shearwater.

Around 38,000 gray seals are born on land at breeding colonies in the UK each November.

It is now more famous for the seal Reserve, a breeding ground for thousands of cape fur seals.

Increasing human activity in harbor could affect distribution and survival of offspring is vital during breeding season.

The breeding season is from 1 May - 31 July.

By selling only shearlings, we endeavor to supply livestock which will achieve a long breeding life span.