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
Anne Hobbs, from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, said it was "very exciting" that the evidence suggested the species was breeding in Wales again.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Numbers in the south of Scotland had fallen to a handful of breeding pairs but they are now at a record level of more than 50 - despite some setbacks.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
And so, if programs for breeding domestic animals can be introduced, at least some of the remaining wildlife will have a chance.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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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
Her mind was taken from morbid breedings as they climbed stairs and explored rooms and questioned agents.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
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
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