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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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Ms Haywood said: "Some of the frustration within the industry stems from the fact that many slaughters do not have lairages big enough to physically separate three age batches without mixing the animals from different farms and the NBA is also struggling to see how separating cattle into three age batches at lairage can help food safety.
Co-director Simon Jones said: "Two lamb exporters have just cancelled orders - they don't want to be stuck with thousands of sheep in lairages with no domestic market.
They found: Dirty lambs increased the abattoir's costs by pounds 210,000-a-year because they had to be kept in lairages and cleaned on site, disrupting slaughterhouse operations Over-fat lambs resulted in an extra seven people being employed to re-work 425 tonnes of waste fat at a cost of pounds 126,000-a-year Only 27% of the original live weight of the lamb ended up as a meat product on the supermarket shelf.
 
 
 
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