Sunday, November 15, 2009

Breeding stock

Breeding stock Definition

"Breeding stock" is used to describe a group of animals used for purpose of planned breeding.

Breeding stock Explanation

When individuals are looking to breed animals, they look for certain valuable traits in purebred animals, or may intend to use some type of crossbreeding to produce a new type of stock with different, and presumably superior abilities in a given area of endeavor. For example, when breeding swine the "breeding stock should be sound, fast growing, muscular, lean, and reproductively efficient. The "subjective selection of breeding stock" in horses has led to many horse breeds with particular performance traits.

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