Sentence examples for bred birds from inspiring English sources

Though most commercially bred birds belong to only a few breeds, there are many hundreds of them, from muscled Old English game cocks to plump Rhode Island reds.

After their numbers dropped to just 22 in the 1980s, the U.S. government began rounding up the birds for a last-ditch captive breeding program, then gradually released newly bred birds to the wild.

Mr. Alicea, who wears a solid gold pigeon on a chain around his neck, said all of the hundred or so pigeons for sale in the store were acquired in this way, although he and Mr. Romero also bred birds.

Stroud was originally a prisoner at Leavenworth, and it was there that he bred birds in his cell for more than 20 years; his unexpected 1942 transfer to the infamous island lockup in San Francisco Bay actually put an end to it.

According to British writer Errol Fuller, aviculturalists are rumoured to have bred birds similar in appearance to the Cuban macaw.

A 2001 study conducted at the University of Perugia found that chickens produced this way actually taste better than conventionally bred birds.

Parrots are one of the most frequently kept and bred bird orders in captivity.

Consequently, parrots belong to the most frequently kept and bred bird order in captivity (cf. [11]).

He breeds birds, and there's thousands of them, and then they shoot 'em.

If you intend to breed birds regularly, then identify the chicks by using permanent bands on their legs.

The next spring some of my birds bred, and young birds were raised who soon became as tame as their parents.