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  • But fresh meat, including at least one, symbolic, spring-born young animal -- this year a tender bison calf -- was always included in the feast.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • The mystics are apt to disparage the rationalists; hard-headed, conscientious saints look askance at seers of visions; and those whose new life has broken forth with the energy and volume of a geyser hardly recognize the same life when it develops like a spring-born stream from

    Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915

  • Sixteen, spring-born, single suckled, castrated male calves of Limousin x Holstein-Friesian and Simmental x Holstein-Friesian dams respectively, were used to investigate the effect of weaning on total leukocyte and differential counts, neutrophil functional activity, lymphocyte immunophenotypes, and acute phase protein response.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • A doe can reach sexual maturity at 14 weeks: thus a spring-born rabbit can produce a late-summer litter.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Watch Elizabeth Resager in a sheep shearing demonstration featuring an ewe and three spring-born lambs.

    All Stories - Bainbridge Island Review 2010

  • Sixteen, spring-born, single suckled, castrated male calves of Limousin x Holstein-Friesian and Simmental x Holstein-Friesian dams respectively, were used to investigate the effect of weaning on total leukocyte and differential counts, neutrophil functional activity, lymphocyte immunophenotypes, and acute phase protein response.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles E Lynch 2010

  • Two of the illegally killed animals were spring-born pups, described by the defendant as "micro-babies," prosecutors said.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2009

  • There are studies comparing development of spring-born heifers at two prebreeding target weights (55\% or 60\% of mature weight) and the effects on reproduction and cow and calf productivity.

    CattleNetwork 2008

  • "There will not be separate feedouts for fall-born and spring-born cattle.

    High Plains Journal 2008

  • "There will not be separate feedouts for fall-born and spring-born cattle.

    CattleNetwork 2008

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