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2. Feeder (livestock equipment) - Wikipedia

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   Welsh lambs utilizing a "creep feeder": a place where small lambs can eat but adult sheep cannot. 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]

3. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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   From the early 60's to the 90's feeding beef cattle in the feedlot style showed immense growth, and even today the feedlot industry is constantly being upgraded with new knowledge and science as well as technology. In the early 20th century, feeder operations were separate from all other related operations and feedlots were non-existent. [25]

4. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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   Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [46] They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of ...

5. 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.

6. US allows bulk milk testing for bird flu before cattle transport

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   Under the new program, farms with herds that test negative for three consecutive weeks using bulk tank milk samples will be able to move cattle without additional pre-movement testing, USDA said.

7. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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   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.