weaner
Newly independent offspring
A weaner is a young animal recently separated from its mother's milk, especially a calf or piglet old enough to eat solid food.
The term appears in livestock contexts where animals are grouped by development stage: The weaners are kept in a separate pen.
In Australian slang, weaner also refers to a young person, particularly a teenager or inexperienced youth.
Juvenile cow or leg part
- heiferChildless female cattle
- cowFemale bovine
- bullSteer before castration
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
bovine · suckling · yearling · steer · dairy · beef · ranching · feedlot
State of being apart
- feedingGiving food to
- nutritionBodily use of food
- growthIncrease in size
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
grazing · veterinary · breeding · fencing · herding · animal husbandry · rearing · animal welfare
calf
Juvenile cow or leg part
cattle · bovine · suckling · yearling · steer · dairy · beef · ranching · feedlot · veal
piglet
Young swine
gilt · boar · swine · porcine · suckling · runt · barrow · shoat · piggery · hog
lamb
Juvenile sheep
puppy · kitten · fledgling · chick · duckling · gosling · cygnet · whelp · leveret · poult
separation
State of being apart
pasture · grazing · veterinary · breeding · fencing · herding · animal husbandry · rearing · animal welfare · stress
weanersuckling
Unweaned infant mammal
nursling · suckling pig · unweaned · nursing calf · suckler
- wean offGradually end reliance on
- weaning offGradual discontinuation process
- weaned offGradually freed from dependence
- baby-led weaningInfant self-feeding approach
- baby led weaningInfant-directed solid food introduction
- night weaningEnding overnight infant feeding