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Gimmer (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ m ər /, not / ˈ dʒ ɪ m ər /) – a young female sheep, usually before her first lamb (especially used in the north of England and Scotland).Also theave.; Graziers' alert or graziers' warning – a cold-weather warning issued by the weather bureau to sheep graziers.
Henbit may refer to: Any of several plant species with the common name "henbit": Lamium amplexicaule, wild flower known as henbit dead-nettle, common henbit, or greater henbit; Lamium album, white henbit or archangel; Lamium confertum, garden henbit; Lamium galeobdolon, yellow henbit or yellow archangel; Lamium maculatum, spotted henbit
Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal farming industry has no use. It occurs in all industrialised egg production , whether free range , organic , or battery cage .
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. [ 4 ] Most animals are slaughtered for food ; however, they may also be slaughtered for other reasons such as for harvesting of pelts , being diseased and unsuitable for ...
Electronarcosis does not infringe on these standards for halal. [6] Frequent on-site monitoring is necessary, as is the employment of skilled and well-trained personnel. An animal is considered properly stunned when there is no "righting reflex"; that is, the animal must not try to stand up and right themself.
Killing the animal for food was a secondary consideration, and wherever possible its products such as wool, eggs, milk and blood (by the Maasai) were harvested while the animal was still alive. [22] In the traditional system of transhumance , people and livestock moved seasonally between fixed summer and winter pastures; in montane regions the ...
The killing of animals is animal euthanasia (for pain relief), animal sacrifice (for a deity), animal slaughter (for food), hunting (for food, for sport, for fur and other animal products, etc.), blood sports, roadkill (by accident) or self-defense.
During that period some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers (including women and children), impatient with British rule, emigrated from Cape Colony into the great plains beyond the Orange River, and across them again into Natal and the vastness of the Zoutspansberg, in the northern part of the Transvaal. Those Trekboers who occupied the eastern Cape were ...