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YOUNG CATTLE [8 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2024-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cattle Raising
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

A young … calf that leaves a dairy farm to enter the red meat industry.

CONT

Dairy feeder calves fall under the [Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Veal Cattle] until they are moved from young animal housing and management systems... into housing and management systems intended for growing and finishing.

OBS

Most dairy feeder calves are male.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des bovins
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Jeune veau […] qui quitte la ferme laitière pour entrer dans l'industrie de la viande rouge.

OBS

La plupart des veaux de type laitier d'engraissement sont des mâles.

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
  • Phraseology
OBS

He has 50 head of cattle. The term "cattle" is used only with a plural verb or pronoun, e. g. The cattle ARE grazing in the field. Group : a bow, bunch, creaght, draft, drift, drive, drove, flote, head, herd, lot, team/yoke(oxen) ;a booly(a company of herdsmen wandering with their cattle) ;a dairy(milch cows) of cattle. Male : bull, ox, steer. Female : cow. Young : calf, stirk, bullock(male), heifer(female). Cry : bulls bellow, cows low.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Groupe : un troupeau de bœufs. Mâle : bœuf, taureau. Femelle : vache, génisse, taure. Petit : veau, taurillon. Cri : beugler, meugler.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Prosopis glandulosa
Latin
DEF

Large shrub or small tree, to 30 ft., with large, deep root. [...] Important as bee plants, and as range food plants, the seeds and young shoots are eaten by cattle; the seeds were also made into flour by American Indians and early settlers.(Arizona, south California, north Mexico)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Prosopis glandulosa
Latin
OBS

Cette variété n'a pas été trouvée dans les sources françaises. En français les Prosopis sont des «mesquites» ici il s'agirait d'un «mesquite glanduleux».

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
CONT

... a disease of cattle, sheep, and goats characterized by bronchitis, which gives rise to a husky cough. Typically, husk is a verminous bronchitis... husk was formerly regarded as an acute disease of young animals turned out to grass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
CONT

On désigne communément par bronchite vermineuse, des maladies de pâturage, saisonnières, à allure enzootique, provoquées par l'infestation de l'appareil respiratoire des espèces domestiques, et plus particulièrement des bovins, ovins et caprins, par les formes adultes et larvaires de certains vers ronds.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
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Record 5 2008-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Farm Animals
OBS

The Canadian Junior Hereford Association(CJHA) is a national organization for youth governed by youth. It is an affiliate of the Canadian Hereford Association(CHA). The objectives of the CHJA are to foster and encourage the interest of youth in agriculture, and more specifically the breeding, raising and promotion of Hereford cattle in Canada. This is carried out by developing their knowledge, leadership skills, and community interest through participation in the organization's activities. The association motivates young individuals who are interested in the Hereford breed through education, commerce, and events, which will help them be knowledgeable cattle people and better citizens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Animaux de ferme

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chamois, Calf Leather and Parchment (Leather Ind.)
DEF

Leather made from the skins of young cattle from a few days up to a few months old, the skins weighing up to 15 lbs. Calf leather is finer grained, lighter in weight and more supple than cowhide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chamoiserie, buffleterie et parcheminerie (Ind. du cuir)

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A concept introduced by Harold E. Young, while at the University of Maine, based on the utilization of all the components of a tree, besides traditional logging practices, and their conversion into energy, pulp, cattle fodder, sugar substitutes and other purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
  • Énergie de la biomasse
DEF

Concept visant à utiliser un arbre dans son intégralité, à l'occasion de son exploitation et sa transformation en source d'énergie, en pâte de bois, en engrais à bétail, etc.

OBS

[...] le concept de la «plantation énergétique» [...] [c'est] le fait de cultiver et d'aménager une étendue entière de terres forestières pour faire la récolte continue de sa substance ligneuse. Cette substance ligneuse peut n'être que la bille classique avec son écorce ou elle peut comprendre tous les tissus aériens dans le cadre d'une utilisation totale de l'arbre. Ces tissus sont par la suite convertis en énergie, habituellement en énergie électrique, par combustion.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

A tick toxicosis of young cattle caused by the bites of Hyalomma truncatum(syn. H. transiens) characterized by hyperaemia of the mucosae and an extensive moist eczema which may lead to sloughing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
OBS

Maladie des bovins en Afrique du sud, transmise par des tiques.

Spanish

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