07 October 2013

Monday miscellany

Apples, scarcely bruised
Sweet songster, keeping an eye out for worms turned out by weeding
Fading fast - old advertisement in Walthamstow
Three magpies, visiting next door
Wrapped bollards, opposite Southwark tube station
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:

irene macwilliam said...

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

irene macwilliam said...

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