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Author Topic: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)  (Read 8293 times)

feldar

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • lymington hampshire
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2012, 09:58:28 pm »
Does my hubby apply, when he refers to that "old patchy assed ewe with the big belly"  i don't think he's talking about me?? :innocent:
Most of the names he calls our sheep are just not repeatable!

WarescotFarm

  • Joined Jun 2012
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2012, 10:03:10 pm »
I am a big one for your animals you call them what you like!

Our pigs were 'the boys' and all the other animals get called 'the girls' if you have to use correct terminology on a daily basis it is a drag, isn't this all supposed to be fun?  :thumbsup:

Hard core serious people can call their animals the appropiate names, great too.

Reminds me of the debate what do you tell your children their private parts are called? Hot debate topic amongst mums around here at the moment.... snooooooze who cares!
Miniature Falabella, Pygmy Goat, 2 Glouster Old Spots, 1 Long Island Red, 1 Light Sussex, 1 Dark Sussex, 1 Silkie, 1 Magpie Duck and hopefully some more chicks and ducklings due to hatch soon!

bangbang

  • Guest
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2012, 06:14:08 am »
We give all our animals names! some have more than one.....Sasha our GS other names
are momo, moto, sashmo...she reponds to all of them fine.

Its just fun....If people object ask them what they call their bank manager - I bet they've got
another unaficial name for him ;D

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2012, 06:24:38 am »
So am I just perambulating this mono-wheeled receptacle laden with animal body waste towards the biomass chemical breakdown holding area ?
Or pushing a barrow load of s**t to the muck heap ?
 

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2012, 09:43:53 am »
So am I just perambulating this mono-wheeled receptacle laden with animal body waste towards the biomass chemical breakdown holding area ?
Or pushing a barrow load of s**t to the muck heap ?
 

:D  :D
whichever you like ... then would you come and help me with ours?!
Little Blue

VSS

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Pen Llyn
    • Viable Self Sufficiency.co.uk
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2012, 11:08:32 am »
It's not what you call them - it is the way you say it that counts.
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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2012, 08:04:53 pm »
mandy a female milker will get more milk out a cow than a male will iether  hand milking or machine milking :farmer:
i understand radio 2 helps too ;D
mandy :pig:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #22 on: August 09, 2012, 12:47:31 am »
mandy a female milker will get more milk out a cow than a male will iether  hand milking or machine milking :farmer:
i understand radio 2 helps too ;D
mandy :pig:

Oh!  I thought they liked radio 4?  (Especially The Archers, of course  :-J)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #23 on: August 09, 2012, 04:31:48 pm »
 ???   Have we changed topics?

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #24 on: August 09, 2012, 05:24:39 pm »
???   Have we changed topics?

 :P

Well, maybe a bit.   :innocent:

Selecting a radio station to play them is only a little way removed from having a name for them...  :eyelashes:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2012, 10:59:01 pm »
???   Have we changed topics?

 :P

Well, maybe a bit.   :innocent:

Selecting a radio station to play them is only a little way removed from having a name for them...  :eyelashes:
Well ... I bet they love the moosic anyway  ;)
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Fronhaul

  • Joined Jun 2011
    • Fronhaul Farm
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2012, 03:26:23 pm »
I would love to have seen anyone demanding Harry Sleigh (Wells Shetland Ponies back in the day) referred to filly foals and colt foals instead of calling them all colts.  Or maybe the Scots should either demand we all use "gimmer" perhaps?   And when I refer to Trouble and her little brother I know I am talking about twin lambs, one ewe and one ram, just as I know the Hope Shearling is no longer a shearling but has been called that for so long that nothing else works.  Correct terminology has its place - auction catalogues perhaps come to mind - but I know who I am talking about and so does anyone else who needs to know.

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #27 on: August 11, 2012, 07:44:48 am »
The nocternal raptor and the Norwegian forrest feline went to sea in a nicely painted, estate green, hard chine ,sailing dingy .
 
Nah, doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow. :-J

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2012, 06:12:51 pm »
The nocternal raptor and the Norwegian forrest feline went to sea in a nicely painted, estate green, hard chine ,sailing dingy .
 
Nah, doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow. :-J

Doesn't rhyme either.

lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: To name or not to name? (Including use of 'correct' terminology)
« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2012, 07:35:26 am »
All my animals have names except the hens. Better to have a name than just be a number where you have no individuality or personality, what difference does it make what other people think Sally, they are your animals and you can call them what you like, just like the majority of us.

 

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