Breeding Animals...
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Artificial Insemination and Breeding Animals
Animals in fields, doing what comes naturally, is becoming a less frequent sight. With selective breeding and frozen semen available, the whole...
Breeding Animals for Commercial Uses
With the influence of animal genetics and use of controlled breeding procedures, animals that
are bred for commercial uses means much more than raising meat for the...
Careers in Animal Genetics
The birds and the bees aren’t quite what they used to be. Increased scientific intervention in animal reproduction poses many social and ethical questions....
Work as a Stockman or Herdsman
These jobs are not for the squeamish or faint-hearted! The work is hard, hours can be unsocial,
pay is not brilliant and the smells cling to everything. Apart from...
Work in the Food Production Industry
From ploughing to meat packaging; work in the food production industry covers a huge range
of different jobs and opportunities.
Crops for Food
It’s not all...
Working in an Abattoir?
If the meat you buy is sliced and ready-portioned; wrapped in clean, sterile, plastic; bears no obvious resemblance to the animal it came from, then, like most of...
Working on a Sheep Farm
With 47 years experience of working on sheep farms, Terry Wigmore certainly knows a thing or two about sheep!
The grandson of a traditional shepherd, Terry’s...
