Important animal terms glossary

Containers providing water, e. g. for broilers, that are placed on or below the water supply pipe. Cups are either filled with water all the time or filled when a metal strip is touched by a chicken.

A piglet that has been weaned from the sow`s milk at between 2–5 weeks old (in the EU not less than 28 days), with liveweight of 4–10 kg depending on the rearing system, up to an age of usually about 10 weeks.

Feed for livestock, usually pigs that is formulated as a mixture of feed, water and other ingredients so that it can be pumped.

An in-house system for drying manure collected from laying hens kept in vertically tiered cages or aviary systems. A series of whisks situated above a manure belt are moved to and fro, so moving the air and drying the manure.