dry off
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]dry off (third-person singular simple present dries off, present participle drying off, simple past and past participle dried off)
- (transitive) To make dry.
- (intransitive) To become dry.
- (transitive, agriculture) To cease milking a cow in preparation for calving.
- 1986, Eberhart, R. J., “Management of Dry Cows to Reduce Mastitis”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 69, number 6, , pages 1721-1732:
- In an early study with cows producing very little milk at drying off, new infection rates were about equal whether cows were dried off abruptly or after a period of intermittent milking.
- 2020 September 24, Pornpamol Pattamanont, Marcos Marcondes, Albert De Vries, “Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Dry-off Methods for Dairy Cows”, in edis.ifas.ufl.edu[1], archived from the original on 2023-08-11:
- Thus, revenue from milk yield before dry-off is higher for cows that are abruptly dried off.
- 2023 December 8 (last accessed), “Drying dairy cows off early”, in Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board[2], archived from the original on 2023-02-04:
- If you are drying off more cows than normal you are likely to need to increase the area in which you normally keep dry cows.
Translations
[edit]to make dry
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to become dry
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to cease milking a cow in preparation for calving
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