Bert Theunissen

Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000

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Produktbeschreibung

The long tradition of livestock breeding in the Netherlands serves as a valuable example of the delicate balance between art and science, beauty and statistics in the modernizing field of agriculture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781487507008
• ISBN-10: 1487507003
• Artikelnr.: 58293373

Autorenporträt

By Bert Theunissen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Breeding for Nobility or for Production? Friesian Dairy Cattle
The Breeders Get Organized
Type and Tuberculosis
The Moral Economy of Breeding
Bloodlines and Purity
Scientific Breeding
Nobility or Production?
Entrepreneurship
Indexes
Holsteinization
Market and Moral Economy
2. "The most efficient chickens in the world"
From Side Business to Mainstay
Hybrid Breeding
Hy-Line and Hendrix Genetics
From Purebreds to First-Generation Crossbreds
Industrialization
Developments in Breeding
Chickens are Not Peas
3. Breeding a Pig for all Parties
Testing for Productive Traits
Minkema’s Breeding Plan
AI in Pigs
Hybrid Pig Breeding
The Breeder’s Eye
Pigs are Not Chickens
4. Just Not Like any other Sheep Breed: The Texel
Creating the Texel
The Swifter
Breeding by Numbers or By Eye
AI in Texel Sheep
What’s in a Breed?
5. From Farm Horse to Riding Horse: The Dutch Warmbloods
 
Gelderlanders and Groningers
Introducing "Hot Blood"
Finding the Right Mix
The Government Intervenes
Scientific Breeding
Balancing Practical and Scientific Methods
Conclusions
List of illustrations
Sources
Index