Animal breeding / by A.L. Hagedoorn.

  • Arend Lourens Hagedoorn
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Animal breeding / by A.L. Hagedoorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    xviii Animal Breeding Chapter Page XXII Correlation ......... '38 XXIII Constitution . . '57 XXIV Herd-books 163 XXV Selection for Production . .168 XXVI Tests and Trials 174 XXVII Progeny-testing 179 XXVIII Progeny-testing the Females ...... 190 XXIX Breeding Good Males, with the Accent on Bulls 196 XXX Breeding the Horns Off ....... 206 XXXI Pedigree .212 XXXII The Nucleus Scheme of Pedigree Breeding . . 216 XXXIII Adaptability of Breeds and Pure-breeding Nuclei . 229 XXXIV Government Activity ....... 234 XXXV Artificial Insemination ....... 240 XXXVI Breeding for the Shows ....... 248 XXXVII The Influence of the Show-ring ..... 262 XXXVIII Disease Resistance ........ 266 XXXIX Telegony and Similar Superstitions .... 270 XL Scientific Investigations and Animal Breeding . 273 XLI Breeding of Special Groups of Animals—1 280 Introduction—The Horse—Mule Breeding—The Donkey— Cattle—Swine—Sheep—The Dog—The Cat—The Rabbit— Poultry XLII Breeding of Special Groups of Animals—II 302 The Buffalo—The Goat—The Ferret—Fur Animals—Wild Animals—Laboratory Animals—The Duck—The Goose—The Turkey—Pigeons—Cagebirds—Aviary Birds—The Ostrich— Food-fishes—The Honey-bee—The Silkworm XLIII Dominance and the Nature of the Gene .... 327 XLIV Australian Sheep and Cattle 338 Appendix: An Adventure in Poultry Breeding, by Geoffrey Sykes ....... 345 Index 358
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