Re: [Alpacasite] Re: Breeding Maidens (again)"culling"

Hi Lucy:
Sounds like Orsen Wells' "New Speak" to me. I think we should call a
spade a spade.

Meriam-Websters on line dictionary says that as a verb cull means to
select or choose from a group. As a noun it means to identify and
remove the culls. If I remove an animal from my herd because I no
longer have room or because some one has offered me some outlandish
price, this is still a cull.
The little word cull had it's beginnings in middle English, middle
French, (cuillir) and Latin (colligere). Isn't the English language
great, use it wisely. -- Wayne
Southwestern Ontario,
Canada
http://jubileeacres.net
http://wordsmith.fateback.com

Quoting LUCY FARRAR <FARRAR1036@msn.com>:

> Surely with all our collective brains we can come up with a marketing
> word to replace "culling" when used to describe an alpaca that we no
> longer desire in our breeding program for whatever reason, but can be
> useful in another program. For example, I just sold a female that I
> personally didn't want to part with, but we have 2 daughters and 3
> granddaughters from her in our small herd and a reality-check said we
> needed to allow someone else to reap the results of her fine
> production. Right now I call these "sales" alpacas. If I were a major
> US corporation, I might call it "out sourcing for genetic diversity"
> or some other coined phrase. When I think of "cull", I translate it
> "shouldn't be of any use to anybody".
> Lucy Farrar
> Front Range Alpacas, LLC
> Monument, CO ph. 719-488-0986
> www.coloradoalpaca.com<http://www.coloradoalpaca.com/>
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