Feed (cattle) with cut grass brought to them instead of putting them out to pasture.
more and more farms have gone over to zero-grazing
Example sentencesExamples
- The fodder is brought to the animal in the zero-grazing unit.
- Farmers accepted the ‘zero-grazing’ approach but only after adapting it to their own situation.
- All the goats are zero-grazed.
- Cows will be zero-grazed in light, airy sheds to protect the health of the animal, prevent environmental degradation from grazing and allow for collection of manure and urine.
- Dozens of dairy cows are being locked away without sunlight for a year under cruel zero-grazing techniques.
- In programmes to regenerate lands, the policy of ‘zero-grazing’ or a complete ban on grazing coupled with a complete ban on goats has regrettably become the pre-dominant formula of ‘success‘.
- Large, zero-grazed herds in feedlots are likely to encounter more hygiene problems than conventionally housed herds.
- Conversion to zero-grazing would represent a complete and expensive systemic change for the Irish farmer.
- Small scale farmers that keep zero-grazed pigs or dairy cows are good candidates for installing household biogas units.
- In catchment areas, households plant trees on individual plots and cut firewood and harvest grass for their zero-grazed cows.