Crossbreeding for Profit

196111 min 53 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Pierre PatryClément Perron

Production: Peter Jones

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Agriculture.

Experiments in crossbreeding of sheep carried on at the Canada Department of Agriculture station at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec. The film shows and compares the results of a two-way cross, three-way cross, four-way cross, and backcross of Border Leicester, North Country Cheviot, and Suffolk breeds.

Subject categories

  • Animals > Agricultural LivestockAnimal Husbandry and Dressage
  • Agriculture > Animal HusbandryLivestockQuébec

Credits

director
Pierre Patry
Clément Perron
producer
Peter Jones
photography
Grant Crabtree
sound
Clarke Daprato