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English to Spanish translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / composting
English term or phrase:dairy manure
Hola a todos, estoy traduciendo un texto sobre compostaje y no sé si estoy traduciendo bien este término. Mi traducción es "estiercol de establo", os proporciono un poco más de contexto y mi traducción:
"Although Co-Composter was initially developed to describe co-composting of dairy manure with other solid wastes, it may also be used to model municipal solid waste and yard waste systems which do not include dairy manure."
Si alguien me puede ayudar también con el verbo "to model", creo que se refiere a "hacer un modelo para residuos sólidos municipales y para un sistema de residuos en un jardín"
Explanation: We are talking solid waste here from the context.
El se compone principalmente de excrementos y una pequeña parte de orina y paja. Los principales productores son el ganado vacuno, ...
Capítulo Fermentado de estiércol vacuno del curso Principios básicos de agricultura orgánica.
Estiércol vacuno: ¿cómo usar para abonar? - INFOJARDIN
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Energía estiércol vacuno - [ Translate this page ]
22 Mar 2010... que separa el estiércol en dos fracciones: sólida y líquida. ... Vídeos sobre Energía estiércol vacuno. Añade aquí tu comentario ...
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Dairy = vacas y solo vacas. No pigs, no horses. A dairy is where milk is produced.
solids and liquid, I don't think it is necessary in this context which is why I put it in brackets but the fact is that it goes on to talk of 'other' solid wastes. It just might be that the need was not felt to distinguish 'slurry' from 'solid' since the stuff is not liquid in any event. And it is quite common to let slurry dry to form a solid which is probably what happens here. It really is not that relevant. I would leave it out personally.
A point to note is that dairy waste isn't solid. Dung is washed out of the sheds using a lot of water and it's not economically viable to separate out much (e.g. by centrifuging). So we're dealing with a slurry!
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10 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -2
estiércol líquido
Explanation: This is the usual translation for "slurry" which is the more usual term for dairy manure. boñiga is what it would be if it were dry.
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estiércol de vaca is also possible.
DLyons Ireland Local time: 00:02 Works in field Native speaker of: English
18 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
estiércol vacuno (sólido)
Explanation: We are talking solid waste here from the context.
El se compone principalmente de excrementos y una pequeña parte de orina y paja. Los principales productores son el ganado vacuno, ...
Capítulo Fermentado de estiércol vacuno del curso Principios básicos de agricultura orgánica.
Estiércol vacuno: ¿cómo usar para abonar? - INFOJARDIN
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 mins (2011-04-11 17:06:12 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Energía estiércol vacuno - [ Translate this page ]
22 Mar 2010... que separa el estiércol en dos fracciones: sólida y líquida. ... Vídeos sobre Energía estiércol vacuno. Añade aquí tu comentario ...
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 49 mins (2011-04-11 17:33:14 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Dairy = vacas y solo vacas. No pigs, no horses. A dairy is where milk is produced.
xxxFVS Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
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Notes to answerer
Asker: Mi duda es que el término hace referencia al establo, pero claro, en el establo el estiercol puede que sea porcino y no vacuno. ¿No hay término más genérico?
Asker: Creo que éste el resultado bueno, además el texto habla sobre e diferentes tipos de vacas y el estiércol que se puede producir por día gracias a ellas.
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