weaners

Recently separated livestock

Weaners are young animals, typically pigs or calves, that have recently been weaned from their mother's milk.

In livestock farming, the weaner stage marks the transition from nursing to independent feeding: The farmer moved the weaners to a separate pen.

In Australian slang, weaner can also refer to a newly weaned calf specifically raised for beef production.

livestock

piglets

Young swine offspring

kids · sows · heifers · ewes · dams · farrowing · nursery · feedlot · pasture · husbandry

young animals

piglets

Young swine offspring

kids · chicks · ducklings · goslings · poults · fledglings · juveniles · cubs · whelps · yearlings

development

growth

Increase in size

thrive · weight gain · progression · independence · self-sufficiency · adaptation · adjustment · vigor · health · survival

Opposites
developmental feeding stage

weanerssucklers

Mammals drinking mother's milk

suckling pigs · sucklings · unweaned · neonates · newborns

livestock maturity

weanersbreeding stock

Animals used for reproduction

finishers · sows · dams · full-grown · ewes

Phrases
Family

weaned, weaner, unweaned

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