stall-feed

Verb

stall-feed (third-person singular simple present stall-feeds, present participle stall-feeding, simple past and past participle stall-fed)

1. To raise and feed (an animal) in a stall.
   • Stubble would have been much cheaper for the littering part, but it is not always to be had; whereas straw is every where to be bought; and it is necessary to charge the price of it, because a farmer may probably have a regular stock of cattle for the straw of his crop; in which case he cannot...1771, Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture, page 158
   • Traditionally, rural households that stall-feed cattle have slaughtered their bulls after two to three years of feeding at the annual harvest festival (November through December) or the bi- or tri-annual festival of the bull, the Marai (January through February).1982, John Holtzman, A Socio-economic Analysis of Stall-fed Cattle Production and Marketing in the Mandara Mountains Regions of Northern Cameroon