A microwave oven doesnât heat up your kitchen as much as a conventional oven, reducing the load on your air conditioner. Of course, this factor only matters during the summer. If you can fit the food you are cooking into a countertop toaster oven, cooking it there will use less energy than a conventional electric oven.
Sonoran Pronghorn. Multimedia Gallery. A geographically and genetically distinct sub-species of pronghorn, the Sonoran pronghorn is smaller and lighter in color and is adapted for survival in desert conditions. The males weigh up to 130 lbs. and females up to 110 lbs.
Dehorning is the process of removing the fully grown horns of livestock. Cattle, sheep, and goats are sometimes dehorned for economic and safety reasons. Disbudding is a different process with similar results; it cauterizes and thus destroys horn buds before they have grown into horns. Disbudding is commonly performed early in an animal's life, as are other procedures such as docking and castration. Many breeds of cattle and sheep are naturally hornless. The polled gene can occur naturally in pa