Sentences with phrase «modern breeds around»

Genetic testing suggests that the modern dog as we know it originates with other modern breeds around the 1800's.

Not exact matches

Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world.
What drivers will find is that this new breed of small turbo engines and their more modern transmissions deliver a mature feeling of power around town, great passing ability, and now also amazingly good fuel economy.
Since the Labrador is descended from the St. John's Water Dog (lesser Newfoundland) as are so many of the modern retriever breeds, I wish those dogs were still around.
The original Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were around and had been bred from other toy dogs and spaniels during the 16th century or so, but modern day breeders have been using other methods of breeding to bring a more pure version of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back into existence.
The modern breed was developed from dogs found in the countryside around Bern, Switzerland and is only... Read more
Double merles have always been around and are NOT the creation of modern breeding.
As with the breeds referred to above, the Alaskan Malamute is considered a «primitive» breed, in that it has been around for millennia, and not just centuries (or less), as is the case with many of today's «modern» breeds.
Like many domestic breeds, the modern incarnation of the Caucasian Ovcharka was first given a written breed standard in the 1930s and it was first exhibited at a dog show in Germany around that same time as the «Trans - Caucasian Ovtcharka.»
Tina M. Barber, a dog breeder from New York, wanted the German Shepherd type dog to look and perform the way it did when she was young — a larger dog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog breed.
Other breeds came from Arabian traders around the Horn of Africa and with Asian immigrants, particularly into the Cape Colony, and jackal coursing introduced from British India brought lurchers from England and Ireland and the borzoi or Russian wolfhound, and before the era of standardised modern breeds, several breeds may have more rarely contributed to Rhodesian Ridgeback genetics.
It was around the same time that the modern Brittany is rumored to have been bred by mating with English Setters.
The modern breed was developed from dogs found in the countryside around Bern, Switzerland and is only one of several Swiss breeds.
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