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barbillón

English translation: wattle

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Spanish term or phrase:barbillón
English translation:wattle
Entered by: Evans (X)

16:03 Jun 14, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Zoology / poultry
Spanish term or phrase: barbillón
La RAE dice: filamentos diminutos de las barbas de las plumas de las aves.
El texto que estoy traduciendo presenta una lista de posibles lesiones o enfermedades en pollos, que es la siguiente:
"crestas inflamadas, diarrea, edema de cabeza, emaciación, barbillones inflamados, plumaje erizado, síntomas nerviosos y síntomas respiratorios"
Maria Cossani
Argentina
Local time: 13:42
wattle
Explanation:
This is not the barb of the feather but the wattle.

It would not be possible to have inflamed "barbs" on feathers, there is nothing to get inflamed.

Here is a definition of barbillon:

Les barbillons sont des appendices charnus qui tombent de chaque côté de la tête de certains gallinacés. C'est aussi une maladie de la langue de certains rapaces.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbillon


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sorry, my reference was French (was distracted!). I'll dig out some other ones

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Here is a Spanish reference, and description of barbillones on a chicken:

La gallina tiene una serie de protuberancias en la cabeza: los barbillones y la cresta. Estos son caracteres sexuales secundarios y tienen una importante función en la parada nupcial.
http://www.botanical-online.com/animales/gallina.htm


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Some more descriptions of chickens and their wattles:
BARBILLONES Y OREJILLAS: Barbillones, lisos, muy largos, delgados, semejando una cinta; orejillas, muy grandes, libres de pliegues y arrugas juntas en el frente, exténdiéndose bien hacia atrás en cada costado del pescuezo, cayendo bien abajo y con el contorno inferior bien redondo, muy lisas,

http://www.infogranja.com.ar/espanola_negra_cara_blanca.htm
Dorking Blanca, cresta rosa; cuadrada al frente, firme y pareja sobre la cabeza, terminada en una bien definida espiga; superficie, comparativamente plana y cubierta de pequeñas puntas redondeadas.

Barbillones y Orejillas: Barbillones, más bien grandes bien redondeados en el contorno inferior; orejillas, de tamaño mediano, teniendo cerca de la mitad de los barbillones

http://www.infogranja.com.ar/dorking1.htm
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Evans (X)
Local time: 17:42
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4 +4wattle
Evans (X)
4 +2barb
Richard McDorman


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
barb


Explanation:
3. Zoology One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/barb

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Ornithology: one of the processes attached to the rachis of a feather.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/barb

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Pressure on the swollen barbs also restores the original color or may even make the barbs a darker blue. This change of color on swelling explains the frequently observed, perfectly reversible change from blue towards white when certain blue feathers are wetted.

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v040n02/p0275-p0300.html

Richard McDorman
United States
Local time: 12:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leonardo Lamarche: agree.
4 mins
  -> Thank you, Leonardo.
agree  Lourdes Sanchez: de acuerdo http://globalflyfisher.com/staff/luallen/anatomy.htm
7 hrs
  -> Gracias, Lourdes.
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
wattle


Explanation:
This is not the barb of the feather but the wattle.

It would not be possible to have inflamed "barbs" on feathers, there is nothing to get inflamed.

Here is a definition of barbillon:

Les barbillons sont des appendices charnus qui tombent de chaque côté de la tête de certains gallinacés. C'est aussi une maladie de la langue de certains rapaces.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbillon


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Note added at 36 mins (2010-06-14 16:40:13 GMT)
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sorry, my reference was French (was distracted!). I'll dig out some other ones

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Note added at 43 mins (2010-06-14 16:47:33 GMT)
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Here is a Spanish reference, and description of barbillones on a chicken:

La gallina tiene una serie de protuberancias en la cabeza: los barbillones y la cresta. Estos son caracteres sexuales secundarios y tienen una importante función en la parada nupcial.
http://www.botanical-online.com/animales/gallina.htm


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Note added at 53 mins (2010-06-14 16:57:45 GMT)
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Some more descriptions of chickens and their wattles:
BARBILLONES Y OREJILLAS: Barbillones, lisos, muy largos, delgados, semejando una cinta; orejillas, muy grandes, libres de pliegues y arrugas juntas en el frente, exténdiéndose bien hacia atrás en cada costado del pescuezo, cayendo bien abajo y con el contorno inferior bien redondo, muy lisas,

http://www.infogranja.com.ar/espanola_negra_cara_blanca.htm
Dorking Blanca, cresta rosa; cuadrada al frente, firme y pareja sobre la cabeza, terminada en una bien definida espiga; superficie, comparativamente plana y cubierta de pequeñas puntas redondeadas.

Barbillones y Orejillas: Barbillones, más bien grandes bien redondeados en el contorno inferior; orejillas, de tamaño mediano, teniendo cerca de la mitad de los barbillones

http://www.infogranja.com.ar/dorking1.htm


Evans (X)
Local time: 17:42
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  twiginbeak: Yes. Google search, "inflamed wattle", clearly confirms.
22 mins
  -> thanks twiginbeak - you would know :-)
agree  philgoddard
25 mins
  -> thanks, Phil
agree  eesegura: Wattles. The two red or purplish flaps of flesh that dangle under a chicken's chin. http://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-glossary.html
27 mins
  -> thanks, eesegura
agree  Rachel Fell: so that's what they're for:-)
1 hr
  -> not their most charming aspect to us, for sure! Thanks Rachel
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