What's the difference between herdsman and swanherd?

Herdsman


Definition:

  • (n.) The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data recording was performed by the herdsman and included date and type of disease per cow and a note, by whom the medical therapy was conducted (veterinary or herdsman).
  • (2) It has been studied whether help with the insemination work from a herdsman improves the result of the insemination.
  • (3) The results indicated that region, housing system, herd size and herd milk (kg) and fat (%) were affecting at least two of the five parameters which were formed to describe the herdsman's willingness to conduct medical therapy himself.
  • (4) The 17 previously inseminated cows appeared to be pregnant, based upon progesterone profiles, when these were inadvertently given prostaglandin F2 alpha by the herdsman.
  • (5) Puberty was measured by two methods: 1) monitored once daily by back pressure applied by the herdsman or 2) from elevated plasma progesterone concentrations.
  • (6) An analysis was performed to investigate which factors of region, farm and herd may be related to the extent, in which disorders are treated by the herdsman.
  • (7) All cows were inseminated by the herdsman who did the pregnancy checks and who also administered drugs.
  • (8) Infection seems to come more often from contact with infected material than by drinking untreated milk, particularly in the herdsman, slaughterhouse worker, and veterinary surgeon.
  • (9) Heat detection was performed several times a day by the herdsman.
  • (10) Nine herdsman inseminators (HI) in four commercial dairy herds in Washington constituted the experimental units.
  • (11) A comparison of both, therapy performed by veterinary or by herdsman, indicated that 75% of all cases of mastitis, 48% of all claw disorders and 25% of all cases of retained placenta were treated by the herdsman, whereas concerning milk fever and sterility only 10 resp.
  • (12) The influence of the herdsman's qualification how to keep cattle concerning their behaviour and the quantity of injuries is shown.
  • (13) Abortion was spontaneous without prior clinical signs noted by the herdsman.
  • (14) The herdsman injected 103 cows with prostaglandin F2 alpha during the time this herd was under continuous observation by the authors who were conducting an unrelated research project.
  • (15) Any cow that developed clinical mastitis or substantial decrease in milk production was, at the discretion of the herdsman, culled.
  • (16) A majority (40-80%) of the specially selected groups (farmers-hunters and Sami reindeer herdsman) changed its diet significantly after the accident.

Swanherd


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.

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