Word for sheep manure
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Please give us the sentence in which you would use this word.
"Sheep droppings". You can use "droppings" on its own if you aren't sure of the animal, but this could possibly be misconstrued as something else that had been dropped, if the context isn't clear.
I would say "sheep droppings".
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Yes. Droppings is good. Note that it is always plural. These are usually less copious than what is produced by cows and horses.
droppings | Definition of droppings in English by Oxford Dictionaries
droppings | Definition of droppings in English by Oxford Dictionaries
"Droppings for me, too. It only becomes "manure" when it's ready to go on my garden.
If I need to be specific and talk about one little pellet, I think that's what I'd say:
Today we are going to study sheep droppings. Each of you take one pellet and examine it closely.
See also: Difference : manure, dropping, dung
If I need to be specific and talk about one little pellet, I think that's what I'd say:
Today we are going to study sheep droppings. Each of you take one pellet and examine it closely.
See also: Difference : manure, dropping, dung
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Really? Not for me. I think "droppings" for me can only mean excrement.
That is indeed a serious lacuna in your vocabulary, Booz
Kittles is nice, Mr Q. (Nope, never heard of it.)
When I was a child we called them raisins. (Yes, really.)
Kittles is nice, Mr Q. (Nope, never heard of it.)
When I was a child we called them raisins. (Yes, really.)
We seem to enjoy using “sheep poo” in Australia. A TV gardening show has a recipe for “sheep poo tea” and a museum has a story about, “How sheep poo can help us defend threatened native plants”:
So, time to get our hands dirty- what can the poo tell us? We sampled poo from 24 individuals, split between Merinos, Dorpers (and goats as a control), from sheep stations between Broken Hill, Mildura and Ivanhoe.
I don't like being crude, but I live in the middle of sheep farms and realistically, people who raise sheep (or other animals) tend to be rather earthy.
I don't recommend it for polite company, but around here, "sheep shit" predominates.
I don't recommend it for polite company, but around here, "sheep shit" predominates.
I should have said that too of course. But this translates to “poo” in TV shows and museums (not to “droppings” which sounds too carefully euphemistic to a down to earth Aussie)
Wow, what an array of fantastic answers. Thank you all, dear friends.
Look, my initial inclination was to use 'droppings', for lack of a better word (or describe them as 'pellets') but that sounded to me way too unspecific and euphemistic (as Orble says), like an inferior substitute of the 'real thing', whatever it was. The things we are talking about are so specific and unique in shape (less so in composition) that I felt they ought to have a word of their own. Indeed, as is the case in my language, the word we use is not really a word, so I checked dictionaries but had little hope of finding anything. And, unsurprisingly, did not.
So, special thanks for the 'kittles', Paul, and the 'raisins', Ewie*. Excellent suggestions and, undoubtedly, just what I was looking for. I understand, of course, that those will not be readily understood out of context, but we hardly ever converse without context and, in any case, the same could be said of the word I use in my language - it is standard in some parts of the country and unheard-of in others.
* and, Ewie, I also enjoyed your 'lacuna'
Thank you all, dear friends. Look, my initial inclination was to use 'droppings', for lack of a better word (or describe them as 'pellets') but that sounded to me way too unspecific and euphemistic (as Orble says), like an inferior substitute of the 'real thing', whatever it was. The things we are talking about are so specific and unique in shape (less so in composition
) that I felt they ought to have a word of their own. Indeed, as is the case in my language, the word we use is not really a word, so I checked dictionaries but had little hope of finding anything. And, unsurprisingly, did not.So, special thanks for the 'kittles', Paul, and the 'raisins', Ewie*. Excellent suggestions and, undoubtedly, just what I was looking for. I understand, of course, that those will not be readily understood out of context, but we hardly ever converse without context and, in any case, the same could be said of the word I use in my language - it is standard in some parts of the country and unheard-of in others.
* and, Ewie, I also enjoyed your 'lacuna'
From one US (I think) sheep farmer
Healthy sheep shit is a small pile of nuggets often referred to as Ewe Berries. Get it? Ewe Berries? Adorable. But it’s still shit.
Sheep Poop
Healthy sheep shit is a small pile of nuggets often referred to as Ewe Berries. Get it? Ewe Berries? Adorable. But it’s still shit.
Sheep Poop
Sheep marry in Bulgaria?Ewe berries
Here in Canada, they prefer common-law arrangements!