Sentence examples for over breeding from inspiring English sources

With the allure of racing riches and over breeding much to blame, 25,000 horses are destroyed per annum.

The Crufts dog show opened at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham this morning with organisers insisting they expected record crowds despite last year's controversy over breeding methods for pedigree dogs, which caused the BBC to drop its coverage, the major sponsor Pedigree to pull out and the RSPCA to end its association with the 118-year-old show.

But I'll contend that in many cases, show-oriented breeders focus first on winning conformation competitions (how the dog looks); making a good pet is important to them, but if push comes to shove they'll choose winning the shows over breeding for a dog that's a good pet.

In accordance with life-history theory, we predicted that older males would be more aggressive and more likely to win contests over breeding resources.

Note that although vocal activity and the number of overall interactions decrease slightly, the specificity of within-pair interactions increases over breeding stages.

Our case study illustrates how methods that regress fitness over breeding values for phenotypic traits yield biased estimates as well as anti-conservative standard errors.

In 1982, the year he took over the breeding program, he was looking through the trees that his predecessor in the job wanted removed.

A compound nest can house over 100 breeding pairs, each contributing to its construction, maintenance and repair.

Dr. Susan Stover of the University of California-Davis appeared as a panelist in June before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, which was looking into how to help remedy the problems plaguing the industry: on-track deaths of horses, over-medicating and over-breeding.

The charity estimates that 7000 horses are already at risk in England and Wales, as over-breeding has caused a significant drop in their value.

The potential for profit led to over-breeding of the Arabian.