Abgangsursache
English translation: reason for termination
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| 18:22 Apr 10, 2006 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Medical - Livestock / Animal Husbandry | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Cetacea Switzerland Local time: 03:26 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | cause of death/ mortality |
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| 3 +1 | reason for culling |
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| 3 | reason for reduction |
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| 3 | o.k. if it's not abortion, it could also mean reasons for discharge (urine etc.) |
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51 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1cause of death/ mortality Explanation: without more context this might be it .... the most common causes of death in dairy cows/cattle -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 51 mins (2006-04-10 19:13:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Die zweithäufigste Abgangsursache stellte die Coliseptikämie dar, die vorwiegend ... After cannibalism, coli septicaemia was the most common cause of death. ... elib.tiho-hannover.de/dissertations/ weitzenbuergerd_ss05.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages |
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reason for reduction Explanation: reason for reduction of the stock, as in: http://www.tll.de/agb02/pdf/agb02_2.pdf not only due to death! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2006-04-10 19:26:58 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- more correctly: reason for reduction of the milk-producing stock |
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53 mins confidence:
o.k. if it's not abortion, it could also mean reasons for discharge (urine etc.) Explanation: this is hard to guess. You are probably better off with your suggestion, but the dictionary search yielded "discharge" as well, so I thought I'd mention it. Probably it has occurred to you as wel... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2006-04-10 19:39:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- don't know much about history, don't know much about biology (and especially milk coes, it seems)... |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1reason for culling Explanation: "Abgangsursache" refers to reasons for the (premature) slaughtering of cows, i.e. culling. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2006-04-10 20:59:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Just as one example, this is a quote from a specialized Swiss article published on www.ufa.ch: "Fruchtbarkeitsstörungen sind in vielen Ländern die häufigste Abgangsursache. In der Schweiz werden rund 30% der Milchkühe wegen Reproduktions- problemen frühzeitig geschlachtet." Reference: http://www.fao.org/Wairdocs/ILRI/x5532E/x5532e0a.htm |
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