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| Apples, scarcely bruised |
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| Sweet songster, keeping an eye out for worms turned out by weeding |
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| Fading fast - old advertisement in Walthamstow |
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| Three magpies, visiting next door |
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| Wrapped bollards, opposite Southwark tube station |
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| Turkish delights - shopping in Istanbul (thanks, Erika, for the photo!) |
Freemartin - an androgenous bull, or a spayed heifer, resulting from a twin pregnancy in which a bull and heifer share a placenta. Both fetuses produce hormones, which mix in the shared placenta , affecting their development. The heifer will be infertile in 90% of cases, and the bull's fertility reduced. Sometimes the heifer will develop parts of the reproductive tract of the male. In some cases there will be no
symptoms of freemartinism because the bull calf will have been aborted at an earlier stage of pregnancy.
2 comments:
Not a lot of people know that!!!!!
Androgenous bulls. Very important we textile artists know this.
I love your blog, I never know what surprises or thought provoking images or text I will come across
Irene
Not a lot of people know that!!!!!
Androgenous bulls. Very important we textile artists know this.
I love your blog, I never know what surprises or thought provoking images or text I will come across
Irene
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