Sentences with phrase «animals breed more»

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The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.
Moreover, crossbreeding typically results in sterile animals — not a new and more successful breed.
otherwise every catholic woman would be like the duggars and the catholic women would be nothing more than an animal for breeding.
In more remote times prior to agriculture and to the breeding of livestock, the Supreme Being was the Lord of animals.
The speculation that it was in a «section on preaching to the «half breeds» / Samaritans» might be some handy way someone sections off that section of the book, but to assume every incident within a certain part of scripture is there like a Science book identifying the phylum and genus of an animal, that is, that everything mentioned under the Raccoon Family is in the Raccoon Family (the ring - tail cat, kinkajou, coatimundi... three other members of the raccoon family), is an assumption that does not seem to apply to the Bible and how it is written... it is more human, and living, and not sterile, everything in its tight little unmovable section, etc..
Increasing breeding infrastructure: current requirement of artificial insemination doses for entire milch animal population is more than 740 million, against that merely 10 % semen doses are available.
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Heritage Fire will showcase more than 45 notable chefs and butchers from Colorado alongside top chefs from around the country, cooking 3,000 pounds of heritage breed animals in celebration of breed diversity and family farming.
More than 80 percent of breeding pigs in the U.S. are confined day and night during their four - month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals» bodies, preventing them from even turning around.
Many farmers, animal scientists, consumers and companies in the food service industry are working to phase out gestation crates and provide more humane breeding environments.
Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones, limiting vaccine use, not using routine antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.
Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones or antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.
«Our humanely raised, antibiotic - free animals enjoy life here, and we want our guests to visit and learn more about the origin of their food before they take it home,» says Carlson who raises some of the finest heritage breeds of animals including Devon cattle and purebred Ossabaw pigs.
Wild Animal Encounters» Dan Breeding loves animals and has dedicated his work to educating the public about them, appearing on «Good Morning America,» «Live with Regis and Kelly,» «Animal Planet» and more.
Each year, more than 250,000 visitors interact with costumed historians, experience up - close demonstrations of early American trades, and meet heritage breed farm animals.
A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.
Researchers and conservationists plan to use the animal's genome to selectively breed diverse individuals, widening the gene pool and making future generations more resistant to diseases.
Dogs vary in size more than any other land animal and come in 155 breeds in the U.S. alone, according to the American Kennel Club.
Thirty goats are devoted to making ATryn among a transgenic herd of more than 300, and an additional 1,200 nontransgenic animals are kept for breeding.
Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.
Shyer, fiercer, more anxious animals may prosper best in the wild, but they often won't breed in captivity.
Previous research showed that animals that breed in this way are more likely to live in harsher climates, such as deserts, than those who go it alone.
Higher temperatures in spring mean that the animals spend less of the breeding season out foraging and more time in the shade.
He says that better studies of this unique animal and more reserves in the Yangtze are required, though scientists at his institute have started a captive breeding program.
Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.
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With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.
This regime can be even more conducive for breeding resistance, as can low doses in animal feed or in agriculture — or in antibacterial products like plastics, household cleaners, soaps, and toothpaste, a more recent menace.
Also needed is more investment in livestock research, such as breeding for hardier animals.
«With artificial insemination, male breeding animals can produce more than one hundred thousand offspring.»
Then scientists would selectively breed these animals to try to make a version that more closely resembles the extinct animal — a process already underway for some extinct species like aurochs.
This is because some animals may have one extremely large brood per breeding season, while others produce one offspring on a more regular basis, which can have enormous implications for the overall reproductive success, and hence evolutionary potential, of species.
Compared to 1990, the number of tests involving animals bred with harmful genetic defects rose by 28 000, to 170 000, and transgenic creatures were subjected to 62 000 procedures, 14 000 more than in 1990.
Domesticated animals also have more gracile builds, smaller teeth, flatter faces, a more striking range of coloration and hair types — and, in many breeds, floppy ears and curly tails.
Serious conservation zoos cost a great deal more to run than mere menageries, which simply keep familiar animals that breed easily.
In addition, says Emma Brown, a BIS spokeswoman, the word research «more accurately reflects the range of procedures that animals may be involved in, including the breeding of genetically modified animals
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Success for biologists supervising a captive breeding programme for one of Brazil's most endangered primates has turned out to be bittersweet: they have bred more monkeys but have nowhere to release them because the animal's natural habitat has been all but destroyed.
The fieldwork revealed that adult animals were more likely to get infected, which makes sense because they are in closer contact with each other — through fighting for mating and breeding, for example — than are juveniles.
Some microbes merged with hydrogen - producing microbes (probably multi-functional ancestral mitochondria) to become eukaryotes that later developed into multi-cellular «animals» that survive and breed in anoxic conditions, without oxygen (phylum Loricifera, which includes Spinoloricus at left — more).
Jon Hennebold, a researcher at the Oregon National Primate Center, is injecting monkey embryos with CRISPR to breed animals with more genetically precise equivalents of human diseases.
Our ancestors also began domesticating and breeding animals for food, but the result was more fat in our diet: Wild game has only 4 percent of fat, whereas supermarket beef has about 36 percent [source: Bjerklie, Lemonick].
It's not known whether the leashes in the Shuwaymis rock art panels are literal or symbolic, but it certainly suggests these Holocene hunters had a lot of control over their dogs, that some dogs could have been more valuable than others (and therefore kept closer), and that the people likely bred and trained these animals.
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Domestic pigeon breeds exhibit more phenotypic diversity than any other domesticated animal.
For instance, the management of captive breeding programs or the release - and - translocation of animals can be based on a much more precise understanding of specific population genetics and pedigree of individuals being bred or released.
Dogs are considered a much more realistic animal model, and several breeds have naturally occurring dystrophin - gene mutations.
The game is being showcased this year at E3 2016 to unveil its new features: a new environment, new vehicles, a new animal to breed, and new gameplay mechanics that increase the game's richness and depth every year, but also to make it more accessible for both existing fans and new players.
Wonder Boys understands writers and readers, and though it's more appropriate for one of those two breeds of human animal, it's still a bit of an understatement to say that it comes highly recommended.
And soon the Zabinskis are working with the local resistance to smuggle many more Jews out of the ghetto and into hiding, masking their mission by working with eminent Nazi zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Bruhl) on an ambitious animal - breeding program.
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