Tuesday, December 15, 2009

New Delhi's cowboys lasso loose cows - World Blog - msnbc.com

Kumar said his team usually drives around looking for cows until their truck is fully loaded. Typically by midday, they unload the captured cows at a cattle pond – a temporary shelter where cows are tagged with microchips to prevent .... I just returned from India, and was very surprised by the number of stray cows and dogs that so freely run the streets. It\'s incredible. I gained a new appreciation for vegetarians. Clearing the streets of Delhi from bovine is one thing. ...

Industry advisors say it is time to capture direct, maternal heterosis - High Plains Journal

Longevity, rebreeding and calf survivability are gaining importance as the nation\'s cow herd becomes more straightbred. That likely is because commercial cow-calf producers have forgotten or ignored hybrid vigor (heterosis). A crossbreeding program ...

Fish fed bovine TSE prions showed neurodegenerative amyloid-like ... - Examiner

According to the article, \" Evaluation of the Possible Transmission of BSE and Scrapie to Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata ),\" in PLoS ONE , a publication of peer-reviewed science, scientists studied the brains of certain species of fish that were ...