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  2. Animal unit - Wikipedia

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    This simple method is sometimes used for cattle. The number of animal units represented by one or more head of cattle may be calculated by dividing their total body mass in kg by 454 (or dividing their weight in pounds by 1000). Thus an 800-pound steer would be considered equivalent to 0.8 animal units. [4] Estimation based on metabolic body size.

  3. California hide trade - Wikipedia

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    The California hide trade was a trading system of various products based in cities along the California coastline, operating from the early 1820s to the mid-1840s. In exchange for hides and tallow from cattle owned by California ranchers, [ 1 ] sailors from around the globe, often representing corporations, swapped finished goods of all kinds.

  4. List of mammalian gestation durations - Wikipedia

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    The gestation figures given here are shown in days. They represent average values and should only be considered as approximations. ... Cattle (Bos taurus) 279 287 283 ...

  5. 2018 California Proposition 12 - Wikipedia

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    The ballot measure aimed to build upon and strengthen the requirements of a previous ballot measure, the 2008 California Proposition 2, which prohibited battery cages and gestation crates for animals in California, and required that pigs, hens, and calves be able to spread their wings or limbs and turn around. The California legislature in 2010 ...

  6. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.

  7. The position starts at $36,587, and you’re going to need a couple of horses Feds want a ‘range rider’ to protect California cattle from wolves, but no killing allowed Skip to main content

  8. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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    The United States grades feeder cattle that have not reached an age of 36 months on three factors: frame size, thickness, and thriftiness. [7]Frame size evaluates feeder cattle' height and body length as determined by their skeletal size in relation with their age; frame size affects the animals' mature size and weight gain composition as they are fed into fed cattle.

  9. Hippomanes - Wikipedia

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    The vulval discharge from the mare in oestrus was also referred to as Hippomanes in antiquity and was used equally for love potions and love spells. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In a Greek mythology tale, Glaucus , the son of Sisyphus , is devoured by his horses at the funeral games for Pelias , the father of Acastus , during the chariot race, because Aphrodite ...