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  2. Breeding back - Wikipedia

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    Breeding back is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of domestic (but not exclusively) animals, in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that resembles a wild type ancestor, usually one that has gone extinct.

  3. Ayam Cemani - Wikipedia

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    Cemani rooster. The Ayam Cemani is a rare breed of chicken from Indonesia.They have a dominant gene that causes hyperpigmentation (fibromelanosis), making the chicken mostly black, including feathers, beak, and internal organs.

  4. Breeding - Wikipedia

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    Breeding back, a breeding effort to re-assemble extinct breed genes; Breeding pair, bonded animals who cooperate to produce offspring; Breeding program, a planned breeding of animals or plants; Breeding season, the period during each year when a species reproduces; Captive breeding, raising plants or animals in zoos or other controlled conditions

  5. Animal breeding - Wikipedia

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    Animal breeding is a branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation (using best linear unbiased prediction and other methods) of the genetic value (estimated breeding value, EBV) of livestock. Selecting for breeding animals with superior EBV in growth rate, egg, meat, milk, or wool production, or with other desirable traits has ...

  6. Ayam Kampong - Wikipedia

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    The Ayam Kampong (older spelling) or Ayam Kampung is the chicken breed reported from Indonesia and Malaysia. [1] The name means simply "free-range chicken" or literally "village chicken".

  7. Category:Breeding - Wikipedia

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  8. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Selective breeding has been responsible for large increases in productivity. For example, in 2007, a typical broiler chicken at eight weeks old was 4.8 times as heavy as a bird of similar age in 1957, [ 36 ] while in the thirty years to 2007, the average milk yield of a dairy cow in the United States nearly doubled.

  9. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. [1] By analogy, the term is used in human reproduction , but more commonly refers to the genetic disorders and other consequences that may arise from expression of deleterious recessive traits resulting from ...