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单词 bobby calf
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Definition of bobby calf in English:

bobby calf

nounˈbɒbi
  • An unweaned calf slaughtered for veal.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A zero milk, meat and bobby calf withholding period means you can use it any time of the year such as before calving or while they are milking.
    • If you produce or sell or transport bobby calves, you need to pay close attention to how you manage them.
    • The current closure of the slaughter house has meant that the number of bobby calves is building up on farms.
    • In return the sharemilker receives 29% of the farm's milk income and a half share of bobby calf income.
    • They are typically content to sell their male calves off as bobby calves, at around 4 days to 2 weeks of age, and retain their heifer calves as re-stockers for their older milkers in their herd.
    • It has strongly opposed the use of the tags on bobby calves going to slaughter from this time.
    • This interactive calculator allows the user to calculate the sale price needed to generate a specific net profit for a bobby calf rearing enterprise where the user also inputs the starting live weight, purchase cost, growth rate, feed costs (milk powder or whole milk and meal), and rearing time.
    • This is because bobby calves are traditionally slaughtered at less than three weeks of age rather than at over two months of age.
    • Mr Glanville emphasised that bobby calves were only those less than six weeks of age that were unaccompanied by their mothers at the time they are transported.
    • So often do I see poorly reared calves on our Maori farms that I wonder why they do not send them all off in the bobby calf lorry and not bother to take the trouble to try and rear them at all.
    • Before I left I asked him if the bobby calves were still around, and he told me they were over in the river paddock.
    • A bobby calf is a very young calf slaughtered for human consumption.
    • Dairy farmers will no longer have to pay for bobby calf national vendor declaration forms.
    • Producers also use them for dead bobby calves as there is also someone that calls around to collect them as well.
    • Furthermore, milk from treated cows should not be fed to bobby calves without consideration of an appropriate meat withholding period for the calves.
    • Which means they mostly get sold off as bobby calves and shipped off to the meatworks.
    • Were it not for the beef industry, the saleable meat harvested from this large pool of animals would be their bobby calf carcass weight.
    • This booklet is for farmers who supply bobby calves for collection.
    • A calf was born while the cattle were on Mark's property and Joe subsequently decided to sell the 4 week old bobby calf as well as 3 more of his 10 cattle then bring the rest back to his property.
    • The price paid as calculated in accordance with paragraph above is in full and final settlement of the bobby calves collected by Taylor Preston.

Origin

1920s: perhaps from bob2, bobby calf being one of a number of collocations where bobby has the sense 'small, short'. Compare with the dialect term staggering bob for a very young calf or its meat, recorded from the late 18th century, perhaps from the pet form of Robert.

 
 
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