Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Dairy cows can now have mostly female offspring

I've written about my $5 calves before. They're a byproduct of the dairy industry -- male cows that aren't useful in the dairy business. Turns out that they've worked out how to have cows have mostly female offspring by sorting the sperm of the bull.

That's amazing. It's a pretty fundamental change to the dairy business. Huge.

You'll find the article here.

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