Conformation - Animal Breeding

Animal Breeding

  • Equine conformation evaluates the degree of correctness of a horse's bone structure, musculature, and its body proportions
  • Conformation (dog) to a particular dog breed
    • Conformation show, a dog show in which dogs are judged according to how well they conform to the established breed type

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Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or breeding:

    “I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

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