Important animal terms glossary

Several pregnant sows are kept together in enclosed compartments or pens that may have:

• A solid concrete floor with a deep layer of straw bedding to produce solid manure or farmyard manure.
• A partially slatted floor. This provides a lying area with straw bedding and a slatted  floor above a collection channel in the dunging and slatted floor feeding area that may be emptied using scrapers.