If you are thinking or preparing for your first round of artificial insemination, there are a few things you can do to prepare your body, mind, and soul. To be honest, there are no words to be said that will help you be 100% ready for all that you go through during the artificial insemination ...
I live in rural France where agriculture and breeding animals is highly important to the economy. Although I live in the south, and I’m not in farming myself, I’ve booked to attend the Salon d’Agriculture in Paris in March 2012. The Salon is a vast agricultural show which brings together French farmers, olive oil producers, ...
Pity the poor female bedbug – she does not have any genitalia. So how do bedbugs reproduce? Through the bizarre act of traumatic insemination. Bedbugs such as Cimex lectularius reproduce in a way much different than other animals – even other insects. This process is very accurately called traumatic insemination. However, researchers Alastair D. Stutt ...
For anyone struggling to get pregnant, artificial insemination can significantly help a couple conceive. Although every couple will be different, the results (pregnancy) are worth the expense, time, and emotional roller coaster. If you’ve tried to get pregnant, with no results, you know all to well how hopeless, discouraging,and difficult this can be. We all ...
Dog mating is far more complicated (and far more expensive) than human mating. Dogs do not instinctively know how to do the deed and females do not instinctively know how to whelp. Before you decide to breed your dog, please check out the facts about mating and whelping for your dog’s breed. Some breeds like ...
Hybrids are often created by putting two similar related species in the same pen and letting “nature” take is course. However, when the size difference of the two species makes breeding physically impossible this isn’t an option. This is the case with the camel and the llama. How did we get a cama then? A ...
Animal science students go to college for a number of reasons. They may have started out wanting to be a veterinarian. They may have known that it would be beneficial even though all they wanted to do when they started was to finish up and get back home to the farm. Reality sets when students ...
