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lairage

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lairage
animal handling facilities at saleyards or abattoirs. Includes loading ramps, laneways, branding and injection chutes, weigh-scales, holding pens, drafting races, covered housing, waterpoints and feed bunkers.


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However, these differences are disguised by the fact that through put hungry abattoirs will rarely reject unsuitable cattle that turn up in their lairage - although they will hit them with discounts that ought to make the seller's eyes water.
Catching, Transporting and Lairage of Live Poultry.
After three days in lairage, they were loaded on the Cimbria for a three-day journey up the St Lawrence river, followed by a very rough seven-day crossing of the Atlantic.
 
 
 
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