A housing design in which livestock (usually cattle) are permanently restrained in a stall whilst they are kept in the house and so have restricted freedom of movement. The floors of the stalls may be:
Level concrete with a channel covered by a grid at the rear of the animals to collect faeces and urine as slurry.
Sloping concrete with bedding (e. g. straw, chopped straw, sawdust) and a shallow gutter at the rear of the animals to collect part of the faeces and the urine, whilst part is regularly removed as solid manure. In some cases the gutter is equipped with a drainage pipe to collect seepage.
As above but with a deeper channel instead of a gutter to collect and store the liquid fraction.
