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hand-feeding

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hand-feeding
1. feeding stored feeds to livestock, especially pastured animals in drought, flood or other stringent times.
2. newborn animals without a dam to suck being fed by dropper, bottle or spoon. Called also hand-rearing. See also artificial rearing.


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00 Hardcover SF384 Adaptable to subtropical, temperate grassland, semi-arid and mountainous environments, amenable to small farms and hand-feeding or large farms with sophisticated feeding systems, and long proven to be profitable, dairy goats have become important to sustainable livestock farming.
A zoo spokesman said: "Richard and Jay are hand-feeding Maggie May three times a day to make sure she survives.
The shepherd who found him kept him alive by hand-feeding him several months.
 
 
 
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