breeding
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Tom Donati, a fourth-generation rancher in California’s Sacramento Valley, runs an annual cattle auction where hundreds of ranchers gather to look at breeding bulls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Researchers believe warmer summers may be reducing the need for torpor, leaving dormice with more energy for feeding and breeding.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Consumers who believed they were giving rescued dogs a home instead became unwitting financial supporters of the very breeding industry they sought to avoid,” the lawsuit said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
"It is absolutely the right decision not to apply for a special scheme for mink breeding in Denmark," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Anything that could act as a breeding site was either emptied of water or smashed.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.
From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010
Why, then, these foreign thoughts of state-employments, Abhorrent to your function and your breedings?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Survival of the sperm with 4 percent glycerol was so poor that only a few breedings were made with these samples.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by M. E. Friedman
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