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A feeder, is a feed holder, such as fixed holder or trailer-mounted hopper, delivering feed or fodder to cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. [1] See also
Pig, hog, or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. Shoat (or shote), piglet, or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig [23] Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning; Weaner, a young pig recently separated from the sow
Smithfield Foods hog CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.
Gestation crates, used on modern pig-production facilities, commonly referred to as factory farms. A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy. [1] [2] [3] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm). [4] [5]
Hogget, hogg or hog – a young sheep of either sex from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts two permanent teeth); a yearling sheep, as yet unshorn. [6] [7] Also the meat of a hogget. Also teg, old-season lamb, shearling. Hoof-shears – implement similar to secateurs, used to trim the hoofs of sheep.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s hog lice and hog cholera could prove devastating to livestock producers and the hog oiler was seen as one way to combat the problem. The first known patent for a hog oiler device was issued in 1902 by the U.S. Patent Office, [1] however the era of innovation for this device was mainly the years 1913-1923.
A Red Wattle Hog Association was started, which since September 2012 has maintained the pedigree book for the breed. [5] The Red Wattle hog is listed by Slow Food USA in the Ark of Taste. [3] In 2012, Reggie, a Red Wattle Hog, set the record at the Iowa State Fair. "He posted a new Iowa State Fair record weighing in at 1,335 pounds." [6]
A Coast Guard station on Hog Island was later closed. The site where the lighthouse once stood is now nearly a mile out to sea. In 2008, in conjunction with the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, Virginia, filmmaker James Spione directed a documentary, Our Island Home, which featured three of the last surviving people to be born on Hog ...
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