Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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stablished fact that long-continued in-breeding reduces theconstitutional vigor of the animal while it is fixing excellencies for per-petuation. Bakewell, Collins, Bates, Webb, and many other emi-nent breeders of modern times, have been most successful in this direc-tion, with cattle and sheep. The modern breeds of swine, also, owetheir chief excellencies to this system, though in them it is modified bymore frequent infusions of far related blood, since swine are peculiarlyliable to degeneration of the vital forces, scrofula, and other diseases,supposed to be due to too close inter-breeding of near relations.X. In-Breoding of Horses. In horses, in-and-in-breeding has never been practiced to the same ex-tent as with cattle. The horse is bred chiefly for his muscular pjwersand endurance. To this is required to be added, beauty of form, andas supplementary to speed and endurance, great lung po^\ 3r and constitu-tional vigor. Hence, when a sire poesesses t>>«ae merits in an eminei^
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THE HORSE, HIS ORIGIN, ETC. 49 degree, he is eagerly sought far and wide. In the selection of mares,this vigor of constitution, combined with ample room for tli3 develop-ment of the foal is sought. Hence the breeder seeks to breed to suchsires as shall endow their foals with their own special characteristics, be-ing careful only that the cross shall not be a violent one, such as mightproduce decided alterations of form from that previously had. XI. Value of Hereditary Characteristics. Intelligence, stamina, great muscular power, constitutional vigor, andabsence of congenital or hereditary disability, must all be taken into ac-count in selecting sires. If the blood of an animal has been sul)-ject to any hereditary disability, as consumption or other disease arisingfrom weak lungs, or has shown a lial)ility to form curbs, spavin or otherbone disease, such an animal should be Qscardcd. Intelligence is a he-reditary characteristic of special families which should be carefullj^looked to. H

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