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Showing posts with label genetic selection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetic selection. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Choosing and Raising a Small Farm Dog: Short Form

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By request from many of the wonderful participants at my farm dog presentations at the Mother Earth News Fair on Saturday, I have uploaded ...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Just the basics: How to read a pedigree

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I was trying to refer a puppy-seeker to some basic online information that explains how to read a pedigree chart, and was shocked to find th...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Twitterpated

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What? Walt Disney got the biology of critters wrong ? Say it ain't so! Spring is not the season of twitterpated. At least it isn...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Charter of Freewarren

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A Note for Naysayers Nobody, even the most avid animal-rights fanatics, needs to worry about depriving caged rabbits of their liberty. Thos...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Photo Phriday: Don't Screw With The Broody

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One of the ornery Daughters of Henery disappeared for a few weeks in late Spring. Well good riddance, Owl Bait, I thought to myself. Her s...
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

RIP Dale "Supersize" McNugget 4/14/09-6/6/10

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Dale McNugget passed away peacefully and rather suddenly in the sunny barnyard, surrounded by her flockmates, this afternoon. The proximal ...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Pedigree Dogs Exposed: US

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The BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed will air tomorrow -- Thursday, December 10 -- on BBC America. 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central. Check ...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Photo Phriday: What's Up With These Ears?

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Sam had the bad luck to be bought as a young puppy and registered with the United Kennel Club as "Kapsa's Shep."  It appears t...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

This is What I Breed For

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Portrait of the collie as a young pup. When people ask me, why breed when there are dogs for free on Craig's list? When someone wants to...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Dog Breeding: Yer Doin' It Rite

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Scanning the wasteland for the fabled Good Breeder All right, I rail against puppy mills pretty regularly here. My regular readers are the ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Three Hybrids

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Heterosis is the term for what we laymen usually call "hybrid vigor." In brief, it's the generalized positive effect on growth...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

You Can't Eat Dale

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I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep...
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