A specialist term used in animal breeding meaning to selectively breed for a particular sex ratio in offspring.
In animal farming, to try to breed more males or more females on purpose.
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(Specialist/animal husbandry) To breed animals selectively in order to produce a desired proportion of males or females.
"The farm had been working to sex in more females to increase milk production over the next generation."
To bring a particular sex into a population through controlled breeding.
In animal farming, to try to breed more males or more females on purpose.
Highly specialised term used in livestock and poultry breeding contexts. Extremely rare in general usage. Most ESL learners are very unlikely to encounter this outside of specialist agricultural literature.
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