(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.
Herder
Definition:
(n.) A herdsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(2) Dr Carol Kerven counts the human cost: goat herders in Inner Mongolia are shortchanged, selling their goat hair for as little as $2.30 a kilo.
(3) The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders navigate precipitous stone-strewn trails.
(4) The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of frostbite among reindeer herders and to clarify the co-factors that may relate to these injuries.
(5) It paves the way for more effective control of trypanosomiasis, which will be good news for millions of herders and farmers in sub-Saharan Africa ," said Kostas Bourtzis, from a joint body of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which sequenced the genome in a 10-year multimillion-dollar effort.
(6) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
(7) The horrific violence in Darfur, Sudan, for example, followed decades of strained relations between nomadic herders and farmers, coinciding with a sustained drop in rainfall from the 1970s onward.
(8) A former cattle herder, freedom fighter and Robben Island prisoner, 72-year-old Zuma has proved himself the great survivor of post-apartheid politics.
(9) An analysis of variance showed that alcohol intake was significantly related to age, marital status, region and being of Lappish origin, but not to being a full-time reindeer herder.
(10) The dam will end the river's natural flood cycle, which herders and farmers have relied on for centuries, and reduce the water level in Lake Turkana, the organisation says.
(11) October 22 2002 Nine of the internet's 13 "root DNS" servers are disabled in a massive attack by a bot herder advertising his services.
(12) In houses, courtyards, streets, fields used to graze livestock, around springs for water, and even, says one goat herder, “hanging off the trees”.
(13) Five months of fighting in the newly-created nation have undermined its food security, leaving farmers unable to sow and harvest their crops, fishermen barred from rivers and waterways, and herders prevented from migrating between grazing areas.
(14) But the reindeer herder, who is not able to read the documents, said company representatives and others had pressured him and others in the community to sign the agreements.
(15) Lone Survivor, the highest grossing war film of this era, portrays Navy Seals so adept at killing the Taliban that it seems their only weakness is mercy on goat-herders.
(16) Jonathan on Sunday condemned other recent attacks: Friday's bombing of a hotel that local reports identified as a brothel in the north-east state of Bauchi, and sectarian killings of farmers, who are mainly Christian, allegedly by Fulani Muslim herders in northern Kaduna state.
(17) Among subjects with abundant shooting (reindeer herders) the average inferiority of the left ear was close to the average of all male subjects.
(18) To determine the prevalence of allergic symptoms among reindeer herders clinical examinations and skin prick tests (SPT) with nine inhalant allergens were performed in 211 randomly selected men from 21 to 69 (mean 45) years.
(19) In conclusion these results show that it is possible to develop measures preventing accidents and to improve the safety in reindeer herders' work.
(20) December We rounded the year off in traditional style, with a visit to Sápmi, Swedish Lapland, and an insight into the life of a reindeer herder, Anna-Maria Fjellström, who documents her family’s modern nomadic lifestyle on Instagram.