Stall-feed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Stall-feed is a verb meaning To raise and feed (an animal) in a stall.
Meaning
To raise and feed (an animal) in a stall.
Example Sentences
The transponder is attached to a collar around the cow's neck that controls the operating time of the stall-feed dispenser within a preset period.
After the stalks have been separated (this is later used as stall-feed along with grass during winter and early spring), winnowing of husk from grain takes place with a board.
Traditionally, rural households that stall-feed cattle have slaughtered their bulls after two to three years of feeding at the annual harvest festival (November through December) or the bi- or tri-annual festival of the bull, the Marai (January through February).
Stubble would have been much cheaper for the littering part, but it is not always to be had; whereas straw is every where to be bought; and it is necessary to charge the price of it, because a farmer may probably have a regular stock of cattle for the straw of his crop; in which case he cannot stall-feed to advantage without buying more.
Word Forms
- stall-feeds
- stall-feeding
- stall-fed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stallfeed, stall, whipstall, self-feed, feed, stanchion.
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