Stimulation can help keep pigs healthy | Fatten Stalls

“This thorough system cleanout was initially about reducing Total Viable Count (TVCs), a test for water quality. But when we put pegs in all the nipple drinkers at once, imitating peak drinking time, we also saw the flow rates weren’t as high as they could be. There were some blocked and ineffective nipples.

3. Because the wire mesh of cages rubs off chickens’ feathers, chafes their skin, and cripples their feet. And farmers cut off part of their beaks when they’re just a few days old to prevent them from pecking each other to death in response to the stress of severe crowding.

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No animal should be confined, but for pigs in particular, the denial of any form of natural stimulation or enrichment in their environment is particularly devastating. Pigs are especially bright and intelligent beings. There is extensive evidence to suggest that they can outsmart dogs and are on the same intellectual plane as chimpanzees.

When I was a child in Texas, my parents raised goats, which prowled the fencerows all day looking for weak spots, and escaped to forage poison ivy encroaching on the yard or graze idly in the neighbors’ sorghum fields. Occasionally we came home from town to find the goats had shouldered open the backdoor and climbed onto the kitchen table, where they stood at leisure, eating anything tasty within reach. Our neighbors disliked us, not only because we were Jews, leftists, and outsiders in innumerable and unnamed other ways, but also because of the regular damage our goats did to their fields. One neighbor whose land abutted ours, though he himself lived in an iridescent yellow house on the edge of town, drove up our long rutted driveway one day after a goat escape and climbed out of his pickup with a shotgun. He strode toward the goat barn with his 12-gauge beneath his arm, and at age 3, invariably naked and grubby, I clung to his leg pleading until his heart softened. Our family—including the goats and my mother, who opposed the chemicals he sprayed on his soybean fields that wafted down the hill toward us—was a constant thorn in his side, and he liked to let us know how he felt about it. Once as my father and one of his long-haired friends from out of town were idling down the rutted road with beer cans cracked, probably sharing a joint, they came upon this neighbor standing by his truck at the roadside taking a piss, and as they passed he waggled his dick at them in acknowledgement.

Visitors are encourage to tour the cabin, which was brought to the village approximately five years ago from it’s previous location in the Whitewater Area of Delaware County.

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If passed, New South Wales would become the second Australian jurisdiction to do so, after the Australian Capital Territory banned their use in 2014.

People in racing with knowledge of the deal said it included a bonus of about $25 million were Justify to win the Triple Crown, which he then went on to do, and that it also allowed the multiple owners to retain some shares in the horse when he begins his career as a sire (a provision that also has benefited Zayat to the tune of millions of dollars). Walden has maintained that a deal for Justify’s breeding rights has yet to be finalized. But he may be making that assertion because the partners, for tax benefits, are waiting until September to finalize it.

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The government of New Zealand worked with the indigenous Maori people to legally confer the rights of an individual on a river.