cover dates

English translation: date of intercourse

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English term or phrase:cover dates
Selected answer:date of intercourse
Entered by: mediamatrix (X)

20:25 Mar 5, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Livestock / Animal Husbandry
English term or phrase: cover dates
Can you tell me what this term means?

"Use only if the cover dates are known." In the package leaflet of a veterinary product.

Thank you very much.
Elenacb
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:44
date of intercourse
Explanation:
We're short on context here, but in animal husbandry 'cover' is often used to refer to intercourse.

Frequently Asked Questions American Dorper Sheep Breeders' Society - [ Traducir esta página ]How many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? Ram lambs can frequently cover 20-25 ewes in a 51-day exposure. Yearling rams can usually cover 50 ewes. ...
www.dorperamerica.org/faq.htm - En memoria caché - SimilarSheep @ Purdue: Management of Rams - [ Traducir esta página ]If ewes are being flushed with grain during breeding, then the ram will need to ... factors such as: ram age, amount of ground to cover, ram condition, etc. ...
ag.ansc.purdue.edu/.../rammgmt.html - Estados Unidos - En memoria caché - SimilarHow many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? - [ Traducir esta página ]How many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? ... Ram lambs can frequently cover 20-25 ewes in a 51-day exposure. Yearling rams can usually cover 50 ewes. ... more ...
www.experts123.com/.../how-many-ewes-can-a-dorper-ram-cover... - En memoria caché
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 18:44
Grading comment
Thank you very much, all of you. I just needed some reassurance. The word I used in my (Slovak) translation is specific to pigs and thus the difference between "intercouse" and "mating" is not important. This was very helpul. Thank you!
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2dates for mating
Bashiqa
3 +2date of intercourse
Jennifer Levey
3 +1expiration dates
Martin Riordan


Discussion entries: 2





  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
date of intercourse


Explanation:
We're short on context here, but in animal husbandry 'cover' is often used to refer to intercourse.

Frequently Asked Questions American Dorper Sheep Breeders' Society - [ Traducir esta página ]How many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? Ram lambs can frequently cover 20-25 ewes in a 51-day exposure. Yearling rams can usually cover 50 ewes. ...
www.dorperamerica.org/faq.htm - En memoria caché - SimilarSheep @ Purdue: Management of Rams - [ Traducir esta página ]If ewes are being flushed with grain during breeding, then the ram will need to ... factors such as: ram age, amount of ground to cover, ram condition, etc. ...
ag.ansc.purdue.edu/.../rammgmt.html - Estados Unidos - En memoria caché - SimilarHow many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? - [ Traducir esta página ]How many ewes can a Dorper ram cover? ... Ram lambs can frequently cover 20-25 ewes in a 51-day exposure. Yearling rams can usually cover 50 ewes. ... more ...
www.experts123.com/.../how-many-ewes-can-a-dorper-ram-cover... - En memoria caché

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 18:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you very much, all of you. I just needed some reassurance. The word I used in my (Slovak) translation is specific to pigs and thus the difference between "intercouse" and "mating" is not important. This was very helpul. Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Martin Riordan: If it is a product applied during gestation, this could be the correct interpretation.
4 mins
  -> That's precisely why I requested more context.

agree  Lisa Miles: yes, live cover (as opposed to artificial insemination)
2 hrs

agree  Pham Huu Phuoc: Breeding partner> either of a pair of animals that breed together
6 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
expiration dates


Explanation:
It could be that the leaflet was badly translated from another language. (Even the explanation in the Wikipedia link below suggests a bad translation!)

The context (veterinary product) suggests that it should be the expiration date (or expiry date in the UK), as these products deteriorate over time and should not be used after the expiration date.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expiration_date
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 18:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jennifer Levey: If you've correctly guessed the context, this could be correct.// Sadly, you seem to have guessed the wrong context. But I'll not 'disagree' merely for that.
6 mins
  -> I hadn´t thought of your context! "Mating" would be unambigious. In either case, the EN is inadequate. Now the asker has options!... Looks like it. Such is life!

agree  Phong Le: my first impression
5 hrs
  -> Thank you! Mine too, but I think it was the wrong one...
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
dates for mating


Explanation:
Mating more usual than intercourse.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 22:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jennifer Levey: Kindly explain the difference - without contravening the site rules.
1 min
  -> Samantha has very kindly put in the explanation. Stallions cover mares. They don't have intercourse with the filly in the next field!! I am certain however that should either of our two arab stallions get into the next field it would be rape and neither c

agree  Samantha Payn: In animal husbandry it is more usual to refer to mating than to intercourse. Both terms describe the sexual act for reproduction, but this one is more commonly met in animal husbandry.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks for your explanation.

agree  Phong Le
4 hrs
  -> Merci.

neutral  Martin Riordan: I think it would need to be "dates of mating". The use of a drug often depends on when an animal was mated, and seldom on when it will be mated, which is always an unknown factor.
4 hrs
  -> Unless the drug is being used prior to mating.
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