Breeder (animal)

Animal being used for breeding

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Breeder" animal – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

This article is about animals that are used for breeding. For humans that breed animals, see Breeder. For other uses, see Breeder (disambiguation).

In agriculture and in animal fancy, a breeder is an animal used for selective breeding. A breeder is usually a purebred animal, bred with the intent of producing purebred, or even show-quality animals. However, in some cases, a breeding animal is crossbred with another breed or a mixed breed with the intent of combining aspects of two or more different breeds.

## Purebred and registered animals

[edit]

If the breeding is for a purebred animal that will be used for exhibition or future breeding (pets or livestock), the animal must be registered and conform to the criteria laid out for that breed in a breed standard kept by a central authority, such as a kennel club for dogs. In addition, the breed club, kennel club, or other governing authority may have other restrictions on the type of animal that can be used for breeding to produce offspring that can be registered.

For example, some horse registries allow backbred and crossbred individuals to be breeders. However, most dog registries do not accept crossbred animals for registration, except in exceptional circumstances and only by permission. Most kennel clubs allow any registered individual to be a breeder, however the individual breed club may have additional criteria such as having to pass certain eligibility requirements.

## Terminology

[edit]

In animal fancy, there are specialized words for breeding animals in some species. (Not to be confused with the words for an animal's parents, sire and dam.)

Species  | Male  | Female

|
|

Cat | stud | queen
Cattle | bull | heifer or cow
Dog | stud | brood bitch
Goat | buck | doe
Guinea pig | boar | sow
Horse | stallion | mare
Pigeon | cock | hen
Rabbit | buck | doe
Sheep | ram[1] | ewe

## See also

[edit]

* Animal breeding
* Animal fancy
* Animal husbandry

## References

[edit]

1. ^ D’Arcy, J.B., Sheep Management & Wool Technology, NSW University Press, 1986, ISBN 0-86840-106-4

## External links

[edit]

* breeders-international.com \- The worldwide Community for Breeders

* v
* t
* e

Breeds and cultivars

* Lists of breeds
* Lists of cultivars

Methods|

* Backcrossing
* Crossbreed
* Inbreeding
* Marker-assisted selection
* Mutation breeding
* Outcrossing
* Preservation breeding
* Selective breeding
* Smart breeding (Marker-assisted selection)
* Hybrid
* Purebred

Animal breeds|

* Cat
* Cattle
* Chicken
* Dog
* breeding
* Donkey
* Duck
* Goat
* Goose
* Guinea pig
* Horse
* breeding
* Pig
* Pigeon
* breeding
* Rabbit
* Sheep
* Turkey
* Water buffalo

* Backyard breeder
* Breed standard
* Breeding back
* Breeding pair
* Breeding program
* Captive breeding
* Designer crossbreed

Plant cultivars|

* Apple
* Japanese
* Banana
* Basil
* Callistemon
* Canna
* Cannabis
* Capsicum
* Cherimoya
* Citrus
* hybrids
* Coffee
* Cucumber
* Gazania
* Grape
* Grevillea
* Hop
* Mango
* Narcissus (daffodils)
* Nemesia
* Nepenthes
* Olives
* Onion
* Pear
* Rice
* Rose
* breeders
* cultivars
* Strawberry
* Sweet potato
* Sweetcorn
* Tomato
* Venus flytrap

Selection methods
and genetics|

* Culling
* Marker-assisted selection
* Natural selection
* balancing
* directional
* disruptive
* negative
* selective sweep
* stabilizing
* Selection methods in plant breeding
* Genotype
* Phenotype
* Dominance
* Codominance
* Epistasis
* Dwarfing
* Heterosis
* Outbreeding depression
* Inbreeding depression
* Recessive trait
* Sex linkage
* F1 hybrid

Other|

* Breed registry
* Breeder
* profession
* animal
* Eugenics
* Germline
* Heirloom plant
* Landrace
* Rare breed
* Tree breeding

This genetics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This agriculture article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template