Sentences with phrase «healthy breeding population»

Indeed, the nearest healthy breeding population of jaguars is located 120 miles south of the line in Sonora.

Not exact matches

One of the reasons she began breeding was to contribute healthy and well - socialized animals to the community by introducing lineage (pedigree) into the pet population.

Moving forward, if breeders continue to only breed healthy and exceptional specimens of a breed and stay away from the popular sire syndrome at all cost; their breed's whole population will be protected from inherited health conditions.

Worse yet, the health of the general pet population is adversely affected when these geneticly defective pure bred pets are left unaltered and allowed to breed with healthy pets.

To accomplish this Bell says that breeds with small populations (LE list) need a mentoring program for their puppy buyers because healthy gene pools require genetic diversity and the careful selection of sires and dams in order to produce the desired traits and avoid the deleterious mutations that accompany unwanted traits and diseases.

He also says that breed populations can only remain healthy if they can grow and expand.

They zealously screened their dogs, eliminating not only affected animals but the healthy carriers from the breeding population.

However, in 1973, a female Dalmatian was bred with a male Pointer in order to bring new, healthy genes into the population.

For each disorder, healthy controls seen at the hospital during that same time period were matched for age, weight, and sex to each affected dog to determine risk of disease presentation in the purebred group as compared to that of the mixed - breed population.

These fragments are then transplanted to Molasses Reef and other affected reefs to spur growth of healthy corals and restore the breeding population.