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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. Animal feed - Wikipedia

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   Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry. There are two basic types: fodder and forage. Used alone, the word feed more often refers to fodder. Animal feed is an important input to animal agriculture, and is frequently the

4. Feed manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   Livestock includes beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, goats, sheep and llamas. There is no specific requirement of feed intake for each livestock because their feed continuously varies based on the animals' age, sex, breed, environment, etc.

5. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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   Beef cattle in a feedlot in Texas. A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

6. Creep feeding - Wikipedia

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   Creep feeding is a method of supplementing the diet of young livestock, primarily in beef calves, by offering feed to animals who are still nursing. [1] Creep feed is sometimes offered to swine , [ 2 ] and it is possible with companion grazing animals such as sheep and goats . [ 1 ]

7. Animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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   1 to 299 cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; 1 to 749 swine each weighing 55 pounds or more; 1 to 2,999 swine each weighing less than 55 pounds; 1 to 149 horses; 1 to 2,999 sheep or lambs; 1 to 16,499 turkeys; 1 to 8,999 laying hens, or broilers, if the AFO uses a liquid manure handling system;