Sentence examples for breeding cows from inspiring English sources

Their only assets are their animals, but they diversify their portfolios, so to speak, by breeding cows, goats, camels and sheep.

To that end, the government is spending tens of millions of dollars financing research and projects like breeding cows that produce less gas and inventing feed that will make cows belch less methane, said Philip Gurnsey of the Environment Ministry.

In this part of the country, breeding cows and dromedaries — a type of camel — is the main economic activity.

In the rotation mating scheme, breeding cows are from the same group as the sire, while breeding bulls are from a different group.

Using stochastic simulation, Pederson et al. [ 13] found that genomic selection and MOET on 50%% of nucleus dairy breeding cows resulted in a 23%% increase in genetic gain with no significant increase in inbreeding.

In the second experiment, where cows were heat-stressed and where TAI was the sole method for breeding cows, there was a numerical increase in the percent of cows pregnant following insemination for cows treated with bST as compared to control cows.

Stealing a cow is like stealing a factory, ranchers say, given that a healthy, breeding cow can return dividends for years.

The frequency of mastitis in the dairy cow population could potentially be decreased by breeding for cows with better ability to resist udder disease.

George Malkemus, president of Manolo Blahnik USA, and his partner, Anthony Yurgaitis, the company's vice president, are restoring Arethusa Farm, a stone's throw from the green in Litchfield, breeding prizewinning cows on ever-expanding lands and in ever-larger white barns with black trim.

"My father spent his life breeding dairy cows," says Dr. Thomas B. Okarma Thomas B. Okarma, chief executive of Geron, which owns much of the intellectual property that resulted from the cloning of Dolly the sheep.

He started work on a master's degree, but instead drove his truck to Tampa where he heard there was work, married, found the farm and never left, breeding dairy cows, pigs, chickens and bees.