What's the difference between pasture and soilage?

Pasture


Definition:

  • (n.) Food; nourishment.
  • (n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
  • (n.) Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
  • (v. t.) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
  • (v. i.) To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The experiment took place at two experimental localities in mountainous pastures of the Central-Slovakian region.
  • (2) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (3) The microbial populations of the rumens of seaweed-fed and pasture-fed Orkney sheep were examined.
  • (4) The pasture contamination and tracer calf worm counts remained consistently low until autumn when they began to increase.
  • (5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
  • (6) The growth study was carried out on Brachiaria brizantha pasture over a period of 48 weeks.
  • (7) Control of the time of weaning of calves, routine mineral supplementation and improved pasture management appeared to offer immediate possibilities for economically improving output of calves.
  • (8) Animals on overgrazed pastures are likely to suffer from inadequate feed intake because of deficiencies in feed quantity.
  • (9) Each field is like a room: mostly wheat or pasture but occasionally barley, oilseed rape, maize or broad beans.
  • (10) There was generally avoidance of pasture treated with badger urine up to 14 days old.
  • (11) Of these 48 strains, 43 (90%) came from the southern part of France in which B. melitensis infection in sheep and goats is enzootic and where the dissemination of this species by sheep flocks moving to mountain pastures most often accounted for cattle contamination.
  • (12) Procedures for breeding value estimation for reproductive traits under pasture mating conditions were developed and tested using a computer simulation model of genetic control of bovine reproduction.
  • (13) Minimal larval translation occurred during summer when meteorological conditions limited pasture infectivity as effectively as anthelmintic treatments.
  • (14) Marseille’s Ghanaian striker André Ayew has been a fixture in the King’s Cross crawlspace the Rumour Mill calls home for some months now, having announced his intention to leave the Ligue 1 side for pastures new and preferably Premier League this summer.
  • (15) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
  • (16) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
  • (17) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
  • (18) Several steers, reared in isolation until approximately six months of age, were placed on a small isolated enclosed pasture from late spring to late fall of 1970, 1971 and 1972.
  • (19) Three-year-old, non-lactating and non-pregnant Merino ewes, raised on pasture under a program of strategic treatment with anthelmintic and found to be extremely resistant to "trickle" infection with Haemonchus contortus, were given single-dose infections with either H. contortus or Trichostrongylus colubriformis or both species together.
  • (20) A high number of spiders in the pastures (3-4 specimens per sq.

Soilage


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings affirm that gloves can be regarded only as a means of reducing the risk of gross soilage from blood or body fluids.
  • (2) Pain, bleeding, protrusion, soilage, itching, and burning are anorectal complaints associated with hemorrhoidal disease.
  • (3) The primary cause was neovascularization (60%), although lens soilage, giant papillary conjunctivitis and ulceration were factors in several patients each.
  • (4) Diffuse retroperitoneal soilage following rectal laceration with a blunt object resulted in significant morbidity despite prompt recognition, parenteral antibiotic administration, and early surgical intervention.
  • (5) Breast blisters, feather soilage, broken bones, feed consumption, percentage abdominal fat, and mortality rate for each floor type were also evaluated.
  • (6) A modification of this technique also has proven effective in the treatment of symptomatic anal mucosal ectropion--a condition marked by pruritus and perianal soilage from mucosal weeping, usually associated with the Whitehead hemorrhoidectomy.
  • (7) Drainage from around gastrostomy tubes or ongoing perineal soilage after a pull-through procedure can lead to chemical irritation, cutaneous denudation, and chronic discomfort.
  • (8) Early surgical intervention is key, particularly elimination of ongoing mediastinal soilage.
  • (9) Current operative treatment for intra-abdominal sepsis secondary to internal gastrointestinal fistulas is aimed at wide drainage of septic foci and elimination of continued peritoneal soilage.
  • (10) All three had varying degrees of soilage necessitating permanent ileostomy in one.
  • (11) Treatment was started immediately or delayed for 48 hours after peritoneal soilage.
  • (12) Feather soilage was a problem only with the perforated wood and styrofoam floor systems.
  • (13) Between 1 and 2 weeks postoperatively, 2 of the 73 patients developed retrograde bile leak and peritoneal bile soilage, leading to open common bile duct exploration.
  • (14) The mode of injury, its severity and the ultimate favourable outcome are quite unique considering the gross faecal soilage of the peritoneal cavity and the inevitable time lapse before the institution of medical care.
  • (15) As the risk of uncontrolled sepsis increases, the surgeon should take more aggressive and definitive steps, up to and including esophagectomy in certain cases, to prevent further soilage.
  • (16) No serious complications of peritoneal or wound soilage occurred after transperitoneal drainage in 16 patients, yet the problems of inadequate drainage and heteroptic abscess were not eliminated.
  • (17) Two trials were conducted during consecutive summers to compare performance of lactating cows fed four varieties of tall fescue soilage.
  • (18) A barium examination later demonstrated aspiration of oral contents with pulmonary soilage.
  • (19) To prevent pleural soilage, early diagnosis and adequate treatment of amebic abscess of the liver are mandatory.
  • (20) A third of these fistulas may close spontaneously with proper urinary drainage and avoidance of fecal soilage.

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