Animal breeding programs

Understood are the animal breeding programs as systematic activities directed solely to the enhancement of certain traits, e.g. health, productivity, appearance and the like in a target animal population. These programs are also present in agriculture, conservation, and even research purposes. For instance, in agriculture, the aim in breeding is to improve, say, livestock production in terms of meat, milk, or resistance to diseases. The objective of management plans for conservation breeding programs is to raise the number of individuals of endangered species while maintaining genetic variability necessary to avert extinction The procedures and processes of these programs are quite wide and complex as they include, but are not limited to, artificial insemination and genetic methods. The importance of ethics cannot be overstated – it is essential that breeding stuff as a practice of agriculture Universal principles of animal welfare and sustainable development should be upheld to allow for successful expansion of such technologies in the long run.