Sentences with phrase «specimens of the same breed»
Dog breeding is the vocation of mating carefully selected specimens of the same breed to reproduce specific, consistently replicable qualities and characteristics.
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Influence of Sex — In comparing specimens of different sex, due allowance is to be made in favor of bitches, which do not bear the characteristics of the breed to the same marked degree as do the dogs.
It was at this same time when the selection of certain specimens for breeding began.
At the same time, a small group of enthusiasts for this breed set to work reviving it, finding approximately 100 specimens of the breed and then narrowing it down to the best 30 that most closely resembled the standard and that displayed the proper temperament and excellent health.
In the world of selective animal breeding, to «breed true» means that specimens of an animal breed will breed true - to - type when mated like - to - like; that is, that the progeny of any two individuals in the same breed will show consistent, replicable and predictable characteristics.