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In animal fancy

Animal fancy

Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, and/or breeding of pet or domestic animals.Fancy may include pet and exotic pet ownership, showing, trialling and other competitions, selective breeding and judging....
and animal husbandry

Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agriculture practice of animal breeding and raising livestock....
, entire (or intact) indicates an animal has not been desexed, i.e., spay

Spay

Spay may refer to:*Neutering*Spay, Germany...
ed (female) or neutered

Castration

Castration is any action, surgery, chemical castration, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles. In common usage the term is usually applied to males, although as a medical term it is applied to both males and females....
(male).

Animals are desexed for selective breeding

Selective breeding

Selective breeding in domesticated animals is the process of a Breeder developing a cultivated breed over time, and selecting qualities within individuals of the breed that will be best to pass on to the next generation....
purposes. Males may also be neutered in order to make them more tractable or meatier. A specialized vocabulary has arisen for neutered animals of given species, see more at castration

Castration

Castration is any action, surgery, chemical castration, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles. In common usage the term is usually applied to males, although as a medical term it is applied to both males and females....
.

Except where a desexed pet is desirable, entire animals usually fetch much higher prices than castrated ones, mostly because they retain the ability to breed.

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In animal fancy

Animal fancy

Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, and/or breeding of pet or domestic animals.Fancy may include pet and exotic pet ownership, showing, trialling and other competitions, selective breeding and judging....
and animal husbandry

Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agriculture practice of animal breeding and raising livestock....
, entire (or intact) indicates an animal has not been desexed, i.e., spay

Spay

Spay may refer to:*Neutering*Spay, Germany...
ed (female) or neutered

Castration

Castration is any action, surgery, chemical castration, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles. In common usage the term is usually applied to males, although as a medical term it is applied to both males and females....
(male).

Animals are desexed for selective breeding

Selective breeding

Selective breeding in domesticated animals is the process of a Breeder developing a cultivated breed over time, and selecting qualities within individuals of the breed that will be best to pass on to the next generation....
purposes. Males may also be neutered in order to make them more tractable or meatier. A specialized vocabulary has arisen for neutered animals of given species, see more at castration

Castration

Castration is any action, surgery, chemical castration, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles. In common usage the term is usually applied to males, although as a medical term it is applied to both males and females....
.

Except where a desexed pet is desirable, entire animals usually fetch much higher prices than castrated ones, mostly because they retain the ability to breed. There are various health effects of the decision to leave an animal intact, or to castrate it.