WHAT IS MEANT BY MATED PAIRS When we say mated pairs, we do not mean simply an equal number of birds of each sex.
We mean pairs which have mated and married and are ready to go to work and rear squabs without further waiting after they have been received.
As pigeons mate for life, it is very important that only mated and married pairs are kept together.
This is why we have insisted that the buyer should buy from a reliable breeder and buy mated pairs.
When a pair have gone through the courting stage and have mated ready to build a nest and hatch young, they remain true to each other as long as they live, or as long as they are allowed to remain together.
He selected the strongest and best male and female slaves and mated them exclusively for breeding.
On this plantation were more than 100 slaves who were mated indiscriminately and without any regard for family unions.
He was mated with a very fair and loving wife; but nevertheless he became enamoured of a lady who in the general opinion vastly surpassed in beauty every other lady in Naples.
M] (1) does not contain the factor for the mimetic condition and gives only daughters of the M form when mated with an M[F].
Consequently any pair mated together should give both H and M females in the ratio of three of the former to one of the latter.
In Mr Fryer's experiment two males and two females chosen at random were mated together.
Hence the original wild mother was probably iiXx and had mated with a male of the constitution {88} Iixx.
All over this land onhappily mated couples ar-re sufferin' almost as much as if they had a sliver in their thumb or a slight headache.
They were a singularly badly mated couple, with a fam'ly iv fourteen childher, but he did not live long to enjoy his happiness.
For example, it has been found that a mated pair will not fly home together with anything like proper certainty.
Once a male bird has regularly mated he will fly back to his duties as a husband and father as fast as he can.
By that time the virgin queens have been mated and drones are of no further use.
Tested queen"--one that has mated and has been kept only long enough to show, from the markings of her progeny, that she mated with a drone of her own race.
Queens sold by breeders are always mated unless otherwise specified, and consequently the colony in which they are introduced has no effect on her offspring.
What had he been about when he mated with a woman of this sort?
Fiercer delights than theirs she knew, the joy of power matedwith its equal, coping fellow to fellow.
You were receiving them, and it seemed to me that you and he were mated as man and woman never had been mated before.
It is most important that both the mated animals should be free from worms and skin disorders.
He used to say that the golden tinge peculiar to the Rosehill breed came from a bitch which had been mated with a dog belonging to Dr.
It is a rather curious fact that when two mustards are mated some of the progeny are usually pepper in colour, though when two peppers are mated there are very seldom any mustard puppies.
It is generally best to mate a mustard to a pepper, to prevent the mustards becoming too light in colour, though two rich-coloured mustards may be mated together with good results.
Ah Cum was matedwithout delay to two Goodwood bitches, the result being, in the first litters, Ch.
But I'd rather she mated with somebody in her own rank of life.
Jake Olliver mated with the maiden whom, despite the ghost of Nestleton Abbey, he had paid many a late visit to Cowley Priory to see.
Stockard's experiment produced defective offspring when mated with females from similarly treated stock, they produced normal offspring when mated with normal females.
The grafted animal was now mated with a male albino guinea-pig.
Nevertheless, the effects of the treatment are most decidedly indicated by the type of offspring to which they give rise, whether they are mated together or with normal individuals.
Before the treatment is begun, every individual is mated at least once, to demonstrate its possibility of giving rise to sound offspring.
At that he would fling out of her presence and away, cursing the day in which he had mated with a fool.
A dozen times their hands touched, or their smiles met, or their thoughts mated in distinctly personal if not secret understanding.
Having settled this important business, the newly-mated couple start off in quest of a spot for the location of a home.
Perhaps, necessity only compels them to occupy such sites, when there is a scarcity of deep fissures and horizontal caverns, by reason of a superabundance of mated individuals.
Consequently two extracted recessives mated inter se can not throw the dominant condition; but two imperfect dominants, even though indistinguishable from recessives, will throw dominants.
In still another pen (848) the F2 hybrids were mated to a Buff Cochin.
Extra-toe mated to normal gives extra-toe in 73 per cent only of the offspring in the case of the Houdans.
The following year he was mated to his daughters, but died without leaving offspring.
