Beauty or Statistics : Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000 / Bert Theunissen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theunissen, Bert, 1955- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Livestock--Breeding--Netherlands--History--20th century.

Livestock.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This book is a valuable and innovative piece of scholarship. It advances the broadening field of studies devoted to understanding how animal breeding has evolved after the advent of the science of genetics. Animal breeding is an ancient human occupation, but it has undergone profound changes which have stressed and modified old ways over the past 120 years. This book looks at the interface between science and practice in the breeding of farm animals with a special focus on Dutch livestock breeding. It argues that it is too simplistic to see the infiltration of genetics into practice as merely modernization."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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

Balancing Practical and Scientific Methods

Conclusions

Notes

Sources

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3539-2

1-4875-3538-4

OCLC:

1122744317