(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.