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Category: Livestock

Posted on June 18, 2007

Croatian agricultural biodiversity

Conference on Croatian breeds and varieties, in Croatian though.

Posted on June 17, 2007June 17, 2007

Un-spinning “natural” skimmed milk

Muck and Mystery unspins “natural” skimmed milk.

Posted on June 15, 2007

Rabbits breeding like … rabbits

Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits reintroduced into their native habitat in the state of Washington are finally breeding, raising hopes that this endangered species will recover. Ok, so as wild relatives of a domesticated species go, this one is a fairly remote one, but who knew that “the domestic Oryctolagus cuniculus is believed to have originated in French monasteries in the late first millennium?”

Posted on June 11, 2007

Gone fishing

Fish are agricultural biodiversity too!

Posted on June 7, 2007June 7, 2007

Sheep weed vineyards

A novel use for highly trained sheep: weeding vineyards.

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