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22:11 Nov 26, 2018 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Livestock / Animal Husbandry / Ovejas y corderos | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 01:45 | ||||||
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4 +1 | tupped for milk production |
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4 +1 | covered for milking |
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tupped for milk production Explanation: "Ordeno" has got to be a typo for "ordeño", from ordeñar, to milk, so "para ordeño" means for the purpose of milking; i.e., "for milk production", which seems to be the most common way of expressing it. "Cubiertas", of course, means mating. The word "cover" can be used for this. In relation to sheep, the expression "put to the ram" is also found. But there is also "tupping", which seems to be used: "5. The lambing percentage (i.e. the number of Iambs docked as apercentage of ewes tupped) for 51 flocks in 1966/67 averaged 147." http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261394/files/northscotlan... "Hill ewes in the north of England are generally tupped for the first time as shearlings (yearlings following their first wool clip in summer) but the later maturing Herdwicks are normally tupped for the first time a year later (i.e. as two-shears)." http://www.foundationforcommonland.org.uk/sites/default/file... "Production figures are usually expressed as a quantity per 100 ewes which are put to the ram (tupped). Representative figures of lamb performance in the UK are 110 lambs per 100 ewes tupped for mountain farms, 140 for upland farms and 170 for lowland farms" http://dlib.scu.ac.ir/bitstream/Ebook/87265/2/9781845939731.... I must admit that one reason I like this option is because it reminds me of Othello, when Iago warns Desdemona's father at the beginning that: "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe." |
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10 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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