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line breeding

Selective inbreeding to perpetuate certain desired qualities or characteristics in a strain of livestock.

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line breeding

linebreeding

(Veterinary Science) selective inbreeding that produces individuals possessing one or more of the favourable characteristics of their common ancestor

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Born in Matfen, Northumberland in 1775, he established the Shorthorn breed after he set out to improve livestock by careful line breeding and bred Shorthorns from his land in South Tyneside and latterly Kirklevington, Yarm.

Now that was a heck of a bull

The result of parental line breeding program focused on multiple resistance to nematodes was obtaining the set of clones very highly resistant to all pathotypes of Globodera spp.

IMPROVEMENT LEVEL OF NEMATODE RESISTANCE IN POTATO FACING CHANGES IN POPULATION OF GLOBODERA SPP

Line breeding, Larsen explains, is basically inbreeding.

For farm and country: 'service to stewardship' event opens doors for military veterans to raise heritage livestock breeds

In case of line breeding, sheep of this breed steadily reproduce their economically useful qualities to offspring, and are used to improve wool quality of local coarse wool sheep.

Features of growth and meat productivity of new factory lines of Saryarka lambs

In the 1970s-1980s, these breeds were created on the basis of pure breeding using the classical method of line breeding [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

The sperm fertilizing capacity of Russian fine-wool stud rams under the influence of Australian sheep genotype

Some I mentioned in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Chickens include the Corndel, which Tim Shell produced from Cornish and Delawares, with line breeding and careful selection; and the Black Walnut, from Gene McGraw.