Working group
Collaboration of stakeholders (i.e. farmers, consumers, etc) that works to research, advise on standards, and decide on actions to solve a problem or resolve an issue.
Liquid manure systems
Where manure and urine are collected in pits or lagoons, often directly underneath the pens in which animals are living. The resulting liquid manure or slurry requires special handling and…
Loafing area
An area distinct from the lying area within, where the animal has free movement and can interact with other animals. Note, this area may not be bedded but the lying…
Look out position
When a rabbit sits upright on its hind legs with its ears pricked.
Meat chickens
See broiler.
Milk replacers
A substitute for fresh milk usually presented as a powder to be mixed with water for feeding animals that have not been weaned.
Natural weaning
Allowing a young animal to remain with the mother until nursing stops naturally.
Nest box
A secluded area where laying hens can go to produce eggs.
Non-point pollution
Pollution that comes from excess fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides or manure from agricultural land. Non-point pollution may wash or erode off the field or farm such that it pollutes other land…
Nose-flap device
An insert placed in the nostrils of a calf that stops it from suckling its mother. See also two- step weaning process.
