opleggewicht

English translation: starting weight

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Dutch term or phrase:opleggewicht
English translation:starting weight
Entered by: Andrew Howitt

13:02 Apr 27, 2013
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Livestock / Animal Husbandry / Pig farming
Dutch term or phrase: opleggewicht
In a report about ammonia emission reduction on farms rearing pigs for meat, this heading appears in a table:

"Opleggewicht (kg)"

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Andrew Howitt
Netherlands
Local time: 05:12
starting weight
Explanation:
opleggewicht or starting weight is the weight of the piglet on opleggen or entry to the fattening unit, contrasts with finishing weight.
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Sue Stewart-Anderson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:12
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4 +3starting weight
Sue Stewart-Anderson (X)
4initial body weight (grower-finisher pigs)
MoiraB


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starting weight


Explanation:
opleggewicht or starting weight is the weight of the piglet on opleggen or entry to the fattening unit, contrasts with finishing weight.


    Reference: http://edepot.wur.nl/29467
Sue Stewart-Anderson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  sindy cremer
21 mins

agree  writeaway
39 mins

agree  MoiraB: if further explanation is provided in the text, this would work - otherwise a bit vague and undefined? BTW, the English in your reference leaves much to be desired ;-)
42 mins
  -> True about the English, but I stand by the term. I like your suggestion too, but maybe more appropriate in a clinical trial context than on-farm? Perhaps Andrew's context will help
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
initial body weight (grower-finisher pigs)


Explanation:
Or grower-finisher initial body weight is slightly shorter.

The piglets are weaned, reach a certain weight (think it's 25 kg in NL) and are then moved to the grower-finisher facility (on the same farm or another one), usually after about 28 days. This is their weight when they start the grower-finisher stages. I've never found a satisfactory short solution, though normally I think this may simply be "body weight" if the context is clear. But your lack of context might mean you need to be more explicit.

"Opleggen" was once explained to me by a couple of clients: "opleggen: Als een big bij de zeug vandaan wordt gehaald en in een hok met andere biggen wordt geplaatst, dan wordt hij opgelegd. Het gewicht wat de big op dat moment heeft is het opleggewicht" and "als de biggen van de zeug naar de biggenafdeling gaan heet dit spenen (weaning), dit zijn dan gespeende biggen (weaners), daarna als ze ongeveer 25 kg zijn worden ze opgelegd in een vleesvarkensafdeling (cell)."

The end of this stage is of course when they reach their slaughter weight.

Productivity and aggression at grouping of grower-finisher pigs in ...
http://pubs.aic.ca/doi/abs/10.4141/CJAS07106
by TS Samarakone - 2008
A total of eight 11-wk trials were conducted to evaluate the productivity and aggression at grouping of grower-finisher pigs [initial body weight (BW) = 31.8 ± 5.4 ...

Also check out http://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch_to_english/other/935318-opge...

MoiraB
France
Local time: 05:12
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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