to remove superfluous buds, flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
2. veterinary science
to remove the horn buds of (calves, lambs, and kids) to prevent horns growing
Examples of 'disbudding' in a sentence
disbudding
After disbudding calves were more likely to judge ambiguous colours as negative.
Heather W. Neave, Rolnei R. Daros, João H. C. Costa, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk,Daniel M. Weary 2013, 'Pain and Pessimism: Dairy Calves Exhibit Negative Judgement Bias following Hot-IronDisbudding', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0080556. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This ‘pessimistic' bias indicates that post-operative pain following hot-iron disbudding results in a negative change in emotional state.
Heather W. Neave, Rolnei R. Daros, João H. C. Costa, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk,Daniel M. Weary 2013, 'Pain and Pessimism: Dairy Calves Exhibit Negative Judgement Bias following Hot-IronDisbudding', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0080556. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A similar influence as that of disbudding was obtained by glucose treatment of the cuttings, especially their basal parts.
Edward Borowski, Lidia Kozłowska 2013, 'Comparison effects of decapitation and disbudding with application of glucose in rootingof Chrysanthemum cuttings', Acta Agrobotanicahttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/aa/article/view/2181. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Calves were also less likely to lie down in the pen associated with the disbudding procedure.
Thomas Ede, Benjamin Lecorps, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Daniel M. Weary 2019, 'Calf aversion to hot-iron disbudding', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-019-41798-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Before disbudding, a sudden and severe increase of blood pressure was observed following flushing of the arterial line.
Daniela Casoni, Alessandro Mirra, Christine Goepfert, Ilaria Petruccione, ClaudiaSpadavecchia 2018, 'Iatrogenic cerebral arterial gas embolism from flushing of the arterial line in twocalves', Acta Veterinaria Scandinavicahttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13028-018-0405-5. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Future research should explore other alternatives to cautery disbudding that may be both efficacious and cause less pain.
Melissa N Hempstead, Joseph R Waas, Mairi Stewart, Vanessa M Cave, Amanda R Turner,Mhairi A Sutherland 2018, 'The effectiveness of clove oil and two different cautery disbudding methods on preventinghorn growth in dairy goat kids.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6235237?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All related terms of 'disbudding'
debud
to remove superfluous buds , flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
debudded
to remove superfluous buds , flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
debudding
to remove superfluous buds , flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
disbud
to remove superfluous buds , flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
disbudded
to remove superfluous buds , flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)