(pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
(pron. pl.) Alt. of Here
Example Sentences:
Herd
Definition:
(a.) Haired.
(n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.
(n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble.
(n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
(v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
(v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
(v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
(v. t.) To form or put into a herd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(3) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(4) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
(5) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(6) There was considerable scatter of prevalence among both groups of herds.
(7) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
(8) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(9) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(10) Weather data and breeding records for a Holstein herd of 1300 cows in Hawaii were evaluated to determine effects of climate on reproductive performance.
(11) The correlation coefficient between the number of exposures and the number of new cases was 0.85, and the coefficient of determination suggested that 73% of the variation in new cases could be explained by the number of exposures in strain 19-vaccinated herds.
(12) A further 26 herds (iiii) which did not employ iodine-containing teat-dips, were also studied.
(13) The milk response to use of bST is similar (10 to 15%) to that of three times a day (3x) milking and we expect that the management required to maintain the increased production through successive lactations with bST will be similar to that required for the 3x herd.
(14) After a test on all animals older than six months the herd was split into seronegative and seropositive groups.
(15) beta hydroxybutyrate (BHB) serum concentrations were measured at regular intervals throughout a lactation in groups of animals from three commercial dairy herds.
(16) Three cases of dairy herds affected by production disease (infertility, calf scours and low milk yield) were carried out.
(17) There was no significant difference in the occurrence or distribution of lesions on animals in all the three herds over a two month observation period except that a higher proportion of animals in one of the treated herds was affected at the end of the study.
(18) The data were analyzed to evaluate the potential role of these two agents as risk factors for the two conditions, using crude and multivariable techniques, as well as individual and herd data.
(19) Average daily gain was negatively correlated with mortality (r = -0.662, p = 0.010), suggesting that herds that achieved a high rate of gain also had lower mortality.
(20) Two animals from this herd were examined for responses to infection.