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As part of an extensive system, meat horse breeding enables "the valorization of grass in difficult and declining areas". [clarification needed] [27] The relationship between a breeder and his meat horses differs from that between a breeder and draft horses, in that the animal stays much less time on the farm, and does not go through training. [28]
Foundation stock or foundation bloodstock refers to animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a breed or of a given bloodline within such. Many modern breeds can be traced to specific, named foundation animals, but a group of animals may be referred to collectively as foundation bloodstock when one distinct population (including both landrace breeds or a group of animals linked to a ...
Breeding stock is a group of animals used for the purpose of planned breeding. 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.
Though many horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed. Alternatively, a breeder could, using individuals of differing phenotypes, create a new breed with specific characteristics.
From the 1920s and through the 1950s or 1960s, with a brief lapse during World War II, horse meat was canned and sold as dog food by many companies under many brands, most notably Ken-L Ration. Horse meat as dog food became so popular that by the 1930s, over 50,000 horses were bred and slaughtered each year to keep up with this specific demand.
The primary dog breed raised for meat is a non-specific landrace, whose dogs are commonly named as Nureongi (누렁이) or Hwangu (황구). [266] [267] Nureongi are not the only type of dog currently slaughtered for their meat in South Korea.
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A mare that is used for breeding. [8]: 75 broodmare sire See damsire. brothers-in-blood Horses either by the same sire and out of full sisters, or out of the same dam and sired by full brothers. [17]: 414 buck A behavior where the horse lowers its head and rapidly kicks its hind feet into the air.