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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Purdue U Researcher Develops 'Kinder, Gentler' Chicken 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Christopher Platt: Caveat Elsie! 2008

  • I learned a lesson here, but I continue to plant milkweed which attracts the monarch egg-layers.

    Sometimes we have to let nature run its course AYDIN 2008

  • 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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