Farm & Country: Breeding Is Everything ; Alwyn Phillips Says High Technology and Genetics Are the Only Way for Sheep Farmers
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EACH year a half-dozen of Alwyn Phillips' top-rated Texel rams are rounded up and trucked to Scotland for a medical procedure that borders on the surreal.
Once at Edinburgh's Scottish Agricultural College the sheep are lightly sedated, restrained in a special cradle and eased into a computed tomography - CT - scanner of the type familiar to human head injury and cancer victims.See the full content of this document
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Farm & Country: Breeding Is Everything ; Alwyn Phillips Says High Technology and Genetics Are the Only Way for Sheep Farmers
Harmless low dose X-rays produce stunning results. For pounds 50 per ram Mr Phillips gets to peer into a three-dimensional world that reveals body cross-sections, together with precise figures for bone and muscle composition.
"There's almost too much information' gasp...See the full content of this document
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