Horse Breeding By: Halle Lucas “Breaking babies” would sound strange to the average person‚ but not to someone in the horse breeding business. Working on a horse farm can be pretty tough but if you really have a passion for what you do you will go far. The occupation of horse breeding is the reproduction of domesticated horses‚ used to obtain specific characteristics of the breed desired‚ and is more recently known for multiple strategies in safety with technology while breeding. There
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TYPES OF BREEDING Selective Breeding Terms * When you breed plants‚ the results are known as cultigens‚ cultivars or varieties. When there is a cross of animals‚ the results are referred to as crossbreeds‚ while a cross of plants results in hybrids. Similar methods are used in animal and plant breeding. When animals with desirable traits are selected‚ they are bred through the process of culling for particular for traits. Culling is the process of selecting livestock based on desired criteria
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Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans breed other animals and plants for particular traits. Typically‚ strains that are selectively bred are domesticated‚ and the breeding is normally done by a professional breeder. Bred animals are known as breeds‚ while bred plants are known as varieties‚ cultigens‚ or cultivars. The cross of animals results in what is called a crossbreed‚ and crossbred plants are called hybrids. In animal breeding techniques such
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Mcqueen English 102 18 April 2012 Commercial Dog-Breeding Facilities Pet shops give many people the impression of happy‚ eager‚ and healthy puppies that are in desperate need of a home and family. Sometimes people feel bad for the animals stuck in the small cages and decide they’re going to save or rescue them. People who buy these animals don’t realize that they’re supporting the commercial dog-breeding industry. Commercial dog-breeding facilities treat animals as a product; they are concerned
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that dogs can go on breeding past a certain age with positive results. Unfortunately‚ many breeders make this disastrous assumption and go on breeding their dogs past the point of exhaustion or until their deaths. While most male dogs can go on their whole lives breeding‚ many factors contribute to a drop in their fertility that will halt the number of pregnancies produced from each mating. Furthermore‚ the age in which a dog shouldn´t be allowed to breed any longer is proportional to their type
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The Ethics behind selective breeding Selective breeding‚ or artificial selection‚ is a process whereby evolution is overridden so that only organisms with required traits are selected by humans to reproduce over many generations; often resulting in highly productive crops or farm animals‚ or desirable pet breeds (see figure 1). As evolution‚ or natural selection‚ most commonly only allows the fittest‚ strongest and healthiest to survive‚ by-passing this progression can risk adverse organism development
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Selective Breeding essay Eugene Ng F3G6 Selective Breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans breed other animals and plants for particular traits. Typically‚ strains that are selectively bred are domesticated‚ and the breeding is normally done by a professional breeder. Bred animals are known as breeds‚ while bred plants are known as varieties‚ cultigens‚ or cultivars. The cross of animals results in what is called a crossbreed‚ and crossbred plants are called
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Selective breeding in dogs. Also known as artificial selection‚ is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop particular traits on the animals such as how they look or to produce certain exaggerated traits. There are many different types of traits that make reason for selective breeding‚ mainly physical‚ and only some for good emotional and disease blocking purposes. In a lot of ways‚ this is similar to inbreeding in humans. Selective Breeding a bad thing because
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O Level Literature – “Horses” by Edwin Muir The titular creatures in “Horses”‚ despite being rather ordinary animals‚ are viewed by the poet as shocking‚ overwhelming‚ and somewhat divine. Every element of these horses is made to look awe-inspring and godlike‚ inciting both reverence and fear in the poet. The opening verse depicts the horses using words like “terrible‚ “wild”‚ and “strange”‚ as well as them being “Like magic power on the stony grange”. Already‚ we are given an idea of how the
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Horses are amazingly beautiful and sensitive creatures. Horses require not only understanding and patience to have a horse as a pet‚ it also requires a whole lot of care. Herd Mentality: Observe horses in the herd system‚ each horse’s welfare in the wild depends upon an instinctive submission to the discipline of the herd. The instinct is for immediate action. To the horse‚ action is survival. When horses live in an herd environment‚ they often take turns sleeping and standing guard for any predators
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