He would take the animals out for grazing.

Question

Sacaba los animales para pastoreo.

This is best I came up with for this sentence. Any suggestions?

Cheers.

Answer 1

This would be my guess, I am not sure what you mean by take out, but I went with lead outside:

Llevaba los animales afuera para pastorearlos. He would take the animals outside to put them to pasture.

Pastorear must be infinitive after para, unless there is a que (demanding a subjunctive conjugation), which is not necessary without a subject change. It is transitive, and sounds better to me with the DOP.

Answer 2

The use of sacar is correct in this phrase. Sacar is common usage for to take out and it´s understood that the animals are taken out from wherever they normally live. I would consider it idiomatic but we often use it with people, ie: Te voy a sacar a dar una vuelta (I´m going to take you out for a walk / ride).

Gracias, Julian, por la correción. :) - bosquederoble, Mar 9, 2015