Remember that FarmVille Father's Day promotion that boosted male pattern-transfer rates in Sheep and Pigs by 100 percent? Well, we all (including Zynga) apparently loved it so much that a portion of ...
Genome Alberta, with partners, is funding other genomic research initiatives in agriculture. One of these has the aim of ...
The pig-breeding business has started to gain popularity among big companies in China. The country's grain trading giant COFCO Group has stepped up its investment in pig-breeding, after Wuhan Iron & ...
We'll admit it, Sheep and Pig Breeding in FarmVille can be a little bit confusing. Even after Zynga released detailed explanations (with bullet points and all!), some farmers still don't get how their ...
It’s not unusual for pigs to be hogs when it comes to sharing a trough. But Purdue University researchers think they’ve found a way to create a more civil breed of swine. All they have to do, says ...
A Maine farm owner believes that the only way to ensure a rare breed of pig survives is to get people interested in eating them. Susan Frank—whose farm is home to dozens of the country’s remaining 500 ...
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The main reason Alabama Media Group decided to have Pig the Unusual Dog's DNA tested is that many, many people wanted to know what breeds combined to make this magnificent animal. That is the No. 1 ...
In the past year, the Marin Humane Society has seen an increase in a new breed of guinea pig. Cuy criollos mejorados are being introduced into pet stores throughout the country. More commonly called a ...