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2. 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 ]

3. 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]

4. 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.

5. Cattle creep - Wikipedia

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   A cattle creep is a small, field-to-field access for farm animals, usually to allow passage beneath an obstacle such as a road, canal, or railway embankment. Those under roads or railways may be termed underpasses. As they are intended primarily for cattle or other livestock, cattle creeps usually have a low head height and are uncomfortable ...

6. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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   Feeder cattle futures prices are a part of the S&P GSCI commodity index, which is a benchmark index widely followed in financial markets by traders and institutional investors. Its weighting in S&P GSCI give feeder cattle futures prices non-trivial influence on returns on a wide range of investment funds and portfolios. [18]

7. Glossary of agriculture - Wikipedia

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   The fat covering the back of a live animal or a carcass, especially beef cattle. The amount of backfat on an animal is often used as a metric for estimating yield before it is slaughtered. [2] backgrounding The preparation of young cattle for living in a feedlot by getting them accustomed to confinement facilities and processed feed. [5] bale 1.