Guess what china is up to...the big problem is they may increase production and next may be humans
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A cloned male Blonde d'Aquitane calf waits for hay atHenan Gold Cattle Agriculture Development Co., Ltd inXuchang city, Central China's Henan province, on Dec10, 2015. (Photo/Dahe Daily)
"With a fingernail-sized bit of flesh taken from the earof the only Blonde d'Aquitane, our techniciansgenerated an oocyte equivalent to a fertilized egg after a10-day cell tissue culturing in December, 2014. Sevendays later, five embryos were generated. These embryoswere transplanted into worms of five Angus cows,andsix calves were born, including a pair of twins 10 months later," said Zhou Zhengqiang, general managerof Henan Gold Cattle Agriculture Development Co., Ltd.
Zhou added that the cows had the six calves throughcesarean deliveries since the baby calves are heavierthan calves of the Chinese yellow cattle breed.
The successful cloning not only enriches germplasmresources of beef cattle in China, but also increases thequality of beef cattle in China to catch up with that indeveloped countries.
Unlike China's five yellow cattle breeds, which have lowbeef production and quality, the Blonde d'Aquitainebreed, which originated in France, has good qualitymeat and produces lean beef.
An adult Blonde d'Aquitaine is said to weigh 1,600 kg, more than 60 percent of which can be turned into beef.
"When the calves are 18 months old, they can be sold atmore than 300,000 yuan ($46,470) each," said Zhou
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