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The DNA of these "egg-layers" have the normal two sets of chromosomes (diploid).
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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The taboo of the dog, as he expounded it, had prevented him from interfering with the taboo dog when it ate the taboo egg-layers.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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The DNA of these "egg-layers" have the normal two sets of chromosomes (diploid).
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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He had to pay for this restoration someway, so he decided to sell off the small ranch egg-layers, about three hundred, for meat for the masses, and we signed on for the job.
Gilroy Girls 2010
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The easygoing egg-layers Muir has dubbed "Kinder Gentler Birds" don't need their beaks trimmed and blunted, another industry practice deplored by animal rights groups but which is intended to prevent pecking deaths.
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While the loony-toon groups don't want us to, as far as I know, this actual proposition just dealt with humane treatment of egg-layers.
California Animal-Rights Measure Passes Dave Hurteau 2008
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The DNA of these "egg-layers" have the normal two sets of chromosomes diploid.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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Cows, pigs as big as sofas, chickens (broilers and egg-layers), goats, sheep, and much, much more, come here to live out their natural lifespans in peace.
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I learned a lesson here, but I continue to plant milkweed which attracts the monarch egg-layers.
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PC can get us “improved variety” chickens like Rhode Island Reds, and apparently PC Volunteers often trade eggs so that the villages can hatch the improved variety and have better egg-layers.
Archive 2007-06-01 Doug Melvin Boise Idaho 2007
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