Animal-care experts say large breeders and research universities typically already meet widely used voluntary standards and other government requirements.
Altogether, we found most of the stores purchasing from large breeders who have been cited for Animal Welfare Act violations, or major out-of-state brokers linked to puppy mills in the Midwest.
Moreover, waiting for a sufficiently large breeder-candidate set always outperformed the greedy approach of setting up matings as soon as any pair was available.
Despite assurances to the fact that pigs are not to be blamed for the epidemic, sales and consumption of pork in China - the world's largest breeder and consumer of live pigs have dropped dramatically.
Since Mr. De Lara's arrival at the 241-acre Chapel Creek Ranch, it has become one of the largest breeders of Andalusians, also known as Pure Spanish Horses, in the country, according to the Pura Raza Española Mundial Registry, one of the associations with headquarters in the United States that certifies the breed's bloodline.
Joint defence of the group against the predator was common, resulting in positive correlations between the per capita attack rates of large helpers, breeder females and breeder males, both against the medium predator and the large predator (Table 2).
Again, investment in territory defence were scored and analysed on a per capita basis per type of group member, i.e. small helper, medium helper, large helper, breeder female, and breeder male.
This digging effort was measured for small, medium, large helpers, breeder females and breeder males separately (so called 'status'), and we counted the number of individuals observed per status.
The 1200-megawatt Superphénix, owned by a consortium of French, German, and Italian utilities, was planned 20 years ago as the world's largest fast breeder reactor.
The blanket variants with larger radial breeder zone show better shielding performances due to the reduced Eurofer shielding material acting as gamma radiation emitter in between the breeder zone and the vacuum vessel.
Each year an estimated two million puppies are purchased, bought, sold or adopted with an overwhelming number of pet store puppies coming from large commercial breeders in the mid-west and southern states.
