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Docking
an animal’s tail or, sometimes, ears
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Candling
the process of holding a strong light above or below the egg to observe the embryo.
Creep feeding
the practice of providing supplemental feed to calves in order to increase their average daily gain and weaning weight.
IMO
Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) is a homemade microbe mixture that fosters rapid anaerobic digestion of waste
Clipping in pigs
The teeth of the young pig are clipped as soon as possible after birth.
Deworming
the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animals to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm
Predator
Animals that are carnivores (and some omnivores) must hunt their food.
Pork / Bacon
meat of pigs
Gestation period pigs
(114 days)
Hyperorexia
Increase appetite
Polyphagia
Increase food intake
Inappetence
Partial. Absence of appetite
Anorexia
Complete absence of appetite
Anophagia
Decreased food intake
Allotriophagia
Abnormal appetite (Pica)
Osteophagia
Chewing of bone. The meaning of OSTEOPHAGIA is the eating or chewing of bones by herbivorous animals (as cattle) craving phosphorus
Infantophagia
Eating of young
Coprophagia
Eating of faeces.