Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
med rekrytering (in this context)
English translation:
with/by recruitment
Added to glossary by
Helen Johnson
Nov 10, 2011 02:52
12 yrs ago
Swedish term
United Kingdom
Taught MA translation at Uni of Surrey
Native in: English 
Works in: Swedish to English, Danish to English, Norwegian to English
med rekrytering (in this context)
Swedish to English
Other
Livestock / Animal Husbandry
advert
mjölkkor med rekrytering
Examples on Google such as the following
Rekryteringen är de kalvar man måste spara för att ersätta gamla kor eller kor som genom sjukdom måste slås ut ur besättningen.
Does anyone know how the industry would say "med rekrytering" in English please? Any attempts using the word recruitment has brought up nothing but job-related pieces.
TIA
Examples on Google such as the following
Rekryteringen är de kalvar man måste spara för att ersätta gamla kor eller kor som genom sjukdom måste slås ut ur besättningen.
Does anyone know how the industry would say "med rekrytering" in English please? Any attempts using the word recruitment has brought up nothing but job-related pieces.
TIA
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | with/by recruitment |
Charles Ek
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| 4 | selective breeding |
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Change log
Nov 14, 2011 09:50: Helen Johnson Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Charles Ek
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Your meaning, from your words and mine
Native in: English
Works in: Norwegian to English, Danish to English, Swedish to English, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
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12
Selected
with/by recruitment
"Recruitment" is actually a fairly commonly-used term with regard to animal populations. (I'll admit I've seen it used more often with regard to wild animals, however.) The example sentences are from the links below, respectively.
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Note added at 20 mins (2011-11-10 03:13:15 GMT)
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Sorry, that second sentence should start, "The herds are not, however, . . . "
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Note added at 20 mins (2011-11-10 03:13:15 GMT)
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Sorry, that second sentence should start, "The herds are not, however, . . . "
Example sentence:
We compare purchases as a percentage of gross herd recruitment (purchases plus births) by species across periods in Table 6.
tse herds are not, however, able to maintain themselves by recruitment from breeding, and draught animals have to be purchased from other ethnic groups.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Ta very much!"
3 days 7 hrs
selective breeding
Based on your description of the process of selection, I'd say this
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