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A pen for cattle may also be called a corral, a term borrowed from the Spanish language. Groups of pens that are part of a larger complex may be called a stockyard , where a series of pens hold a large number of animals, or a feedlot , which is a type of stockyard used to confine animals that are being fattened.
For example, according to Jull, "The most effective measure of preventing cannibalism seems to be to give the birds good grass range." [6] De-beaking was invented to prevent cannibalism for birds not on free range, and the need for de-beaking can be seen as a litmus test for whether the chickens' environment is sufficiently "free-range-like".
'cattle-pen') is a fence which is made of thorns. Historically, it was used to defend settlements [ 1 ] [ 3 ] or property against perpetrators in Sudan and neighboring countries such as Chad and further south in Democratic Republic of the Congo .
[7] [8] The 2012 battery cage ban was publicised as heralding an end to caged hens throughout Europe, but it created a widely held misconception that all laying hens in the UK are now either free-range or barn birds. That is not the case; although battery cages are illegal, farmers have skirted the ban by providing slightly bigger cages with ...
The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result ...
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Wild birds may have infected Texas cows. Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspect that wild birds infected the cows, as farms have reported finding dead wild birds on their ...
"To avoid the spread of disease, including H5 bird flu, we strongly encourage residents and their pets to avoid raw dairy and undercooked meat products, limit contact with sick or dead animals ...