stall feed meaning: definition, quotations

stall feed

nounalso spelled stall-feed

Fodder that is used to stall-feed livestock.

It is attributed by some to the use of clover hay as stall feed; but as the cattle run in the bush during the summer, and are only fed in winter, this does not strike me as being probable, and you will be doing a great service to myself and others by giving any information upon the subject.1892, Report of the British Columbia Dept. of Agriculture:
Meadows and pastures are fertility-producing types of production, especially the former because they produce stall feed.1935, Theodor Brikmann, Murray Reed Benedict, Mrs. Elizabeth (Tucker) Benedict, Economics of the Farm Business, page 70:

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Alternatives to mangrove foliage as stall feed and feed supplements for livestock need to be found and there is hope in the current research being carried out in Pakistan (Saifullah, 1984).1999, Azra Meadows, P. S. Meadows, The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind, page 40:

verb

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 stall-feed to advantage without buying more.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:

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Poorer farmers let their animals graze on communal lands and along the roadside, and some nutrients may return to the farm although much of the dung will remain on communal lands. Richer farmers stall-feed their cattle in zero-grazing units, which facilitiates the collection and storage of manure and ensures that the manure remains on the farm.2000, F. N. Muchena, Thea Hilhorst, Nutrients on the Move, page Q-131: