SVF Partners with Fair Food of Philadelphia |
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Fair Food and SVF Foundation are working in partnership to identify heritage breed animal products in the marketplace. Using the Fair Food Farmstand as a platform for engaging consumers... Read More... |
SVF Foundation Acquires Endangered Canadienne Cattle |
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As part of its revolutionary program to conserve heritage livestock, SVF Foundation added Canadienne Cattle to its roster of rare and endangered breeds in 2004. One of the oldest and best-adapted breeds of livestock, Canadiennes were the first breed developed in North America. Descended from stock original to... Read More... |
2011 Annual Visitors Day |
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Annual Visitors Day
Saturday, June 11, 2011
9:30 am - 3 pm
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Hog Island Sheep Preservation |
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Jeff and Ginny Adams of Walnut Hill Farms at Elm Springs are true rare breed stewards. They invest countless man-hours and dollars every year to conserve a variety of endangered heritage breeds, including Hog Island sheep, Tamworth hogs, and Milking Devon cattle to name a few. Their involvement with Hog Island sheep in particular has been essential to the breed’s survival . . . Read More... |
Laboratory Expansion Project at SVF |
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SVF has recently completed a substantial expansion of laboratory facilities at its Newport, RI location. Read More... |
"Future Stock" RI Monthly - March 2007 |
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It's been quite a year for Danté. The young buck moved from a small farm in upstate New York to a lush Newport estate blocks from Bellevue Avenue mansions, where he enjoys great success with the opposite sex. Read More... |
"Belted Cows" Newport Life - Summer 2006 |
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Seriously, do you really think they are called Oreo cookie cows? True, their crisp black-white-black coat patterns might make you think of your favorite snack, but they are called belted cows. Read More... |
Livestock Sperm Bank Targets Endangered Breeds - AP |
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NEWPORT, R.I. — Just one of the Dutch Belted Cattle lazing in a corral overlooking the rolling hills of Newport costs $4,000. That's a bargain considering its DNA is priceless. Read More... |
"Jurrasic Ark" - Boston Phoenix |
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On a hot August afternoon, a station wagon with Connecticut license plates and a back seat crammed with children and beach chairs pulls up to what seems like another nifty tourist stop . . . Read More... |
"Noahs Park" Tufts Summer 2006 Alumni Magazine |
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In an idyllic setting, veterinary researchers are on a mission to preserve the diversity of livestock— and perhaps head off future catastrophe . . . Read More... |
Not Your Ordinary Lamb |
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On May 8th 2006 SVF welcomed the arrival of a unique lamb. "Howie" is a typical Gulf Coast ram lamb in everyway except one . . . Read More... |
Bee Hives |
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The mission of SVF Foundation is the preservation of rare breeds of livestock; however one of our most recent additions included thousands of insects. Read More... |
Poster Presented at the International Embryo Transfer Society Conference |
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This poster addressing the topic PRESERVATION OF HERITAGE LIVESTOCK BREEDS: INTEGRATED PROGRAM TO CRYOPRESERVE GERMPLASM FROM TENNESSEE MYOTONIC GOATS was presented at the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS) conference in January, 2005. Read More... |
SVF Foundation Helps Protect Public Health by Creating Gene Bank from Rare Breeds of Livestock |
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NEWPORT, RI, JULY 22, 2004 – The 10-week-old, male, Tennessee Myotonic goat grazing in the pasture at SVF Foundation’s rare breeds farm here may look like a chip off the old block, but he arrived here in a novel way. Read More... |
CRYOPRESERVATION OF GERMPLASM FROM HERITAGE BREEDS OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK: SEASONAL EFFECTS ON SUPEROVULATION RESPONSE AND EMBRYO PRODUCTION |
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This poster addressing the topic CRYOPRESERVATION OF GERMPLASM FROM HERITAGE BREEDS OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK: SEASONAL EFFECTS ON SUPEROVULATION RESPONSE AND EMBRYO PRODUCTION was authored by Dr. David Matsas, Ms. Victoria Huntress, Dr. Howard Levine, Dr. George Saperstein and Dr. Eric W. Overstrom of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and was presented at the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS) conference in January, 2004. Read More... |
