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animaux de production

English translation: commodity animals

12:35 Aug 22, 2010
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Science - Livestock / Animal Husbandry
French term or phrase: animaux de production
I have already translated "animaux de rente" as "livestock." Is "animaux de production" the same thing? I know the meaning but not the best translation...is it as simple as "production animals"?
smadkins
Local time: 03:37
English translation:commodity animals
Explanation:
Commodity Animals: Living Creatures Today, Food Tomorrow. Concerns in Veterinary Education

http://www.jvmeonline.org/content/vol25/issue2/

Commodity animals can also produce non-food items (e.g.:hide, fur).


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Note added at 24 mins (2010-08-22 13:00:20 GMT)
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This sentence shows that ''draught animal'' is different from ''commodity animal'':

It could be disputed that even at this much higher asset-intensity, the numbers
of assets represented in Table 2 are still quite poor in absolute terms, that is, 2.7
draught animals and five COMMODITY ANIMALS per Tibetan household.

http://publishing.eur.nl/ir/repub/asset/17869/Fischer JIATS ...

Same distinction in the following sentence:

Draught Animals and Commodity Animals

http://www.stats-fj.gov.cn/tongjinianjian/dz09/en/html/0621....

Knowing, as I do, that pigs are very smart animals, and how horribly mistreated the vast majority of commercially raised animals are, I cannot feel right buying even a morsel of the treats available on Clement Street. Surely these inexpensive snacks are made using the cheapest of COMMODITY animals.

http://foodierthanthou.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Utilisation de cette espèce par l’homme : loisirs (chasse, observation), animal de travail
(traction, monte), animal de production (VIANDE, LAIT, CUIR...).

http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/livestocksystems/feasibility/moose...
Selected response from:

Claire Nolan
Local time: 21:37
Grading comment
Best answer, but I chose production animals as a more common term, but yours is the only response that makes the distinction. Thanks.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 -1livestock / stock
Marysha
3commodity animals
Claire Nolan
3same thing
Bourth (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
Google production animals -seems to be the term in English too
writeaway
Glossaire de l'agriculture: anglais/français
Stephanie Ezrol

Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
commodity animals


Explanation:
Commodity Animals: Living Creatures Today, Food Tomorrow. Concerns in Veterinary Education

http://www.jvmeonline.org/content/vol25/issue2/

Commodity animals can also produce non-food items (e.g.:hide, fur).


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Note added at 24 mins (2010-08-22 13:00:20 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

This sentence shows that ''draught animal'' is different from ''commodity animal'':

It could be disputed that even at this much higher asset-intensity, the numbers
of assets represented in Table 2 are still quite poor in absolute terms, that is, 2.7
draught animals and five COMMODITY ANIMALS per Tibetan household.

http://publishing.eur.nl/ir/repub/asset/17869/Fischer JIATS ...

Same distinction in the following sentence:

Draught Animals and Commodity Animals

http://www.stats-fj.gov.cn/tongjinianjian/dz09/en/html/0621....

Knowing, as I do, that pigs are very smart animals, and how horribly mistreated the vast majority of commercially raised animals are, I cannot feel right buying even a morsel of the treats available on Clement Street. Surely these inexpensive snacks are made using the cheapest of COMMODITY animals.

http://foodierthanthou.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Utilisation de cette espèce par l’homme : loisirs (chasse, observation), animal de travail
(traction, monte), animal de production (VIANDE, LAIT, CUIR...).

http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/livestocksystems/feasibility/moose...

Claire Nolan
Local time: 21:37
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Best answer, but I chose production animals as a more common term, but yours is the only response that makes the distinction. Thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: why not production animals? it's a term used in English too and is apparently far more widespread than "commodity animals". KIS
57 mins
  -> O.K. Someone can post that answer, too. In which case, I would remove my vote for ''pro''. Sometimes one overlooks the most obvious.
neutral  Jennifer White: http://www.heatstress.info/
59 mins
  -> O.K. Someone can post that answer, too. In which case, I would remove my vote for ''pro''. Sometimes one overlooks the most obvious.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
same thing


Explanation:
Here (http://lipietz.net/spip.php?article892) animaux de rente and animaux de production appear to be the same thing (opposed to animaux de compagnie).

Bourth (X)
Local time: 03:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 94

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: yes by googling, the French meaning becomes clear and googling provides confirmation that Asker's initial English translation was right.
1 hr
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
livestock / stock


Explanation:
Yep, same thing. Terms above are the best translation.

Marysha
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
Notes to answerer
Asker: from Wikipedia artictle "cull" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cull) Criteria for culling livestock and production animals can be based on population or production (milk or egg). Definitely correct on this point.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  writeaway: don't agree at all. not all livestock are necessarily production animals
11 hrs
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: Google production animals -seems to be the term in English too

Reference information:
Pasteurellosis in Production Animals ACIAR Proceedings: Amazon.co ...
Pasteurellosis in Production Animals ACIAR Proceedings: Amazon.co.uk: BE Patten, TL Spencer, RB Johnson, D. Hoffmann, L. Lehane: Books.
www.amazon.co.uk/...Production-Animals-ACIAR.../1863200819

Transitioning to Organic Dairy Production
For the 12 months previous to selling your first organic milk, feed to all production animals on the farm, (milk cows, dry cows and young heifers) must ...
www.mosesorganic.org/attachments/.../fstransdairy.html

Intute - Full record - Disposal of dead production animals
Description: This bibliography of scientific research on the disposal of dead production animals is collated and provided on the Web by the Animal Welfare ...
www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20066694

writeaway
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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1 day 6 hrs
Reference: Glossaire de l'agriculture: anglais/français

Reference information:
This is partially viewable in Google books.

They give a few translation options going from English to French as follows:

P.28
ENGLISH animal production=livestock production=livestock output
FRENCH production animale


P.27
ENGLISH cash animals
FRENCH animaux de rente

http://books.google.com/books?id=xRRk-KqdmWYC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA...
"animaux de rente" as "livestock."


"animaux de production"

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Native speaker of: English
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