Sentence examples for have started breeding from inspiring English sources

The young devils may have started breeding early simply because they have better access to food and mates, now that fewer adults are on the scene.

To see a Butterscotch in a wolf would have required magical foresight, as if our Paleolithic fathers had started breeding leaping mice in the hope that they would someday fly.

Robert Kaleski, of Moorebank, a young associate of Harry Bagust, wrote "in 1893 when I got rid of my cross-bred cattle dogs and took up the blues, breeders of the latter had started breeding ... to fix the type.

We started monitoring nest boxes prior to the initiation of nest building of the first tits (early April) and continued until the last flycatchers had started breeding (early June).

Since Honeywood had only started breeding in the 1830s, it is unlikely these dogs were representative of the modern breed and the description of them as looking like straight-legged Dachshunds with weak heads has little resemblance to the standard.

In recent years, increasing efforts have been made to enhance efficiency in the Italian dairy industry and dairy cattle breeding organizations have started selecting for a wide range of novel traits.

Many pig breeding organisations have started to use genomic selection [ 1], for which genetic evaluation is often done by applying single-step methods [ 2– 4] to handle the fact that only a fraction of the animals are genotyped.

Many pig breeding organisations have started to use genomic selection for which genetic evaluation is often done by applying single-step methods for which the pedigree-based additive genetic relationship matrix is replaced by a combined relationship matrix based on both marker genotypes and pedigree.

Before Hutcherson started breeding Bengals, he had some truly wild cats, and "it didn't work out so well".

"I think since we started breeding animals there has been a tendency for some to select for form over function.

Then their kids started breeding, and now their kids have started.