10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUTOSEXING»
Discover the use of
autosexing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
autosexing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Genetics Manual: Current Theory, Concepts, Terms
In the silk worm the male cocoons (chrysalis) produce 25 to 30% more silk than
the females and therefore autosexing may have economic advantage. The
silkworm eggs may be sorted by an electronic device according to color (sex).
2
How to Raise Poultry: Everything You Need to Know, Updated & ...
AUTOSEXING. BREEDS. Females and males of most goose breeds are similar to
each other, but in autosexing breeds the sexes have different plumage. This is
known as sexual dimorphism. Ganders are white, while females are solid color or
...
Christine Heinrichs, 2014
3
British Poultry Standards
An autosexing breed is one in which the chicks at hatching can be sexed by their
down colouring. It was when crossing the gold Campine with the barred Rock in
1929 that Professor R. C. Punnett and Mr M. S. Pease discovered the basic ...
4
Genetics and Evolution of the Domestic Fowl
This led Punnett & Pease (1928) to develop autosexing breeds, that is, breeds in
which the male and female chicks of the same breed could be distinguished at
hatching. The distinction between males and females at hatching is made easier
...
5
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics
▷apomixis, ▷mutation Autosexing: Identification of sex by genetic markers
rather than by the genitalia. Silkworm breeders and poultry producers have
exploited this procedure. Homozygosity for the B (barring) genes suppresses the
...
6
Chicken Coops for the Soul: A Henkeeper's Story
These days there are lots of autosexing breeds available — you can tell because
in their name they have the suffix 'bar' — for example, 'Legbar' from an original
Leghorn cross, and 'Brussbar' from a Sussex. It is extremely convenient for the ...
7
Designing Foods:: Animal Product Options in the Marketplace
Sexing by the vent method is too costly to be feasible for this purpose; therefore,
autosexing by genetics is required. Two options are available. Feather sexing
based on rate of feathering at day of age is easily accomplished by mating ...
Committee on Technological Options to Improve the Nutritional Attributes of Animal Products, National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, 1988
AUTOSEXING SILKWORM BREEDS Ramakrishna Naika, Manjunath Gowda and
K.C. Narayanaswamy *f *7n southern India, particularly in the purpose of
hybridization namely traditional sericulture belts of Karnataka, "autosexing".
Tazima for ...
Then why campaign against them? Autosexing breeds are of real commercial
worth to the man who makes his living from poultry, but. like so many other things,
we only wake up to the fact when some other country more enterprising steps in.
By R. GEORGE JAAP Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station Stillwater,
Oklahoma term autosexing is used to de- those varieties of chickens particular
color inheritance easy segregation of male and icks at hatching. In all cases n
color of ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUTOSEXING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
autosexing is used in the context of the following news items.
Rare Chicken Breeds at Greenfire Farms
Bielefelder – An autosexing German breed that constantly lays very large ... Creme Legbar – An autosexing breed that lays numerous pastel ... «Mother Earth News, Apr 15»
Good feather cover for optimising energy utilisation
Feather sexing is a form of autosexing which allows broiler chicks to be sexed at day old depending on the phenotype or length of their primary ... «WorldPoultry.net, Jul 12»
Cotton Patch Geese: How I Rescued These Historic Weeder Geese
When I was a kid in southwestern Arkansas during the Great Depression of the 1930s, I became fascinated by the small autosexing geese that ... «Mother Earth News, Sep 10»
