Hybrids
Found in 169 Collections and/or Records:
Hinny, "Lady Moux", 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the [zebra] hinny [offspring of a male donkey and a female zebra], "Lady Moux", with stripes clearly visible, standing in a field with a man holding its reins in the early 20th century.
Hybrid Cow and Hartebeest, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a hybrid cow and hartebeest standing in a paddock in the early 20th century.
Hybrid vigour and animal production, March 1956
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.
Improve closed strains for superior hybrids, 31 March 1962
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1962.
Letter to Innes Mackay, solicitors, from John Fraser, 23 July 1902
Fraser describes the birth of a wild lamb (possibly a sheep/goat hybrid) on the Inverinate estate, and his attempts to capture it to discover its gender. He also thanks the solicitors for their information regarding the boundary of the salmon fishing in Loch Duich belonging to Sir Keith Fraser, and mentions problems with poachers on the estate.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Hayward, 10 January 1913
Hayward writes that he would like to capture some Burchell's zebras for his estate in South Africa and enquires whether a hybrid zebra and horse stallion would be fertile. He has heard that the Burchell's zebra mixes more freely with donkeys and mules than with horses.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 21 September 1921
Barker writes that he finds it impossible to get up to Scotland. He hopes that the Research Association is getting good photographs of the parent sheep to contrast with the crossbred sheep, as well as samples of wool illustrating the rate of growth.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 06 February 1922
Barker writes that he envisages the work being subdivided into breeding and manufacturing, and that he is willing to help Ewart in whatever way he can. He intends to continue with the investigations into the possibilities of all the English wools, but he is happy at any time to provide Ewart with accounts of the Herdwick, 'Musk ox' and Siberian/Shetland.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 13 July 1925
Barker asks Ewart to send him the skins of the Shetland and the Siberian-Shetland cross and seeks permission to mention Ewart's work and forthcoming book in an article he is writing for The Graphic. He also asks if Ewart would be willing to talk about the exhibits at Bradford the following week.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 23 August 1928
Barker writes that he has recently taken on 13 Peruvian-Wensleydale sheep crosses and reports that the wool is excellent. He hopes that Ewart will soon be quite fit again to continue with his book on sheep and wool as 'no one else can record what you can record.'