livestock crush BrE
squeeze chute AmE
standing stock AmE
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So I watched them, going into the squeeze chute on the feedlot, getting their shots and going up the ramp at a slaughter plant.

Sure enough, the usually unflappable Marrow was venting his ire at a cranky squeeze chute.

He paused to reach a hand between metal bars to soothe the panicky Brangalo bull inside the squeeze chute.

Temple Grandin, after seeing how cattle would calm down while being put into a squeeze chute to receive their shots, developed a machine based on the same principle to treat the anxiety resulting from her own autism.

Later, at an aunt's ranch, she saw how the cattle reacted to the squeeze chute, a metal device that holds animals in place for vaccinations and other procedures, and recognized it as a crude version of her dream of a hug machine.

The squeeze chute allowed a vet to shoo an animal from its corral to the elevated platform where, with adjustable sides and ends on the chute, something as pesky as a Brangalo bull could be lightly squeezed into immobility.

The idea for the hug machine came to her during a visit to her aunt's Arizona ranch, where she noted the way cattle were inoculated while confined in a squeeze chute, and how some of the cattle immediately calmed down after pressure was administered.

It is used for routine husbandry activities such as drafting (sorting) or loading animals via ramp or loading chute into a vehicle; placing them one at a time in a cattle crush (variations also called a squeeze chute or standing stock) for examination, marking or veterinary treatment.

Two types of restraint are the cattle crush or squeeze chute (for larger cattle), which may close on either side of a standing animal, or a branding cradle, where calves are caught in a cradle which is rotated so that the animal is lying on its side.

Going to work meant standing stock still and taking a good look all around him.

"They're standing stock still, the whole crowd of them, not making a move or a sound, just watching us!"

In fact, he was standing stock still, staring at the farther bank.

"I'd keep seeing workers standing stock still, just staring at the buildings."

He was standing stock still about thirty yards along the wire to my left.

The fight seemed to have gone right out of the Rajah, who was now standing stock still.

The chief was standing stock still with his hands on his hips.

He was standing stock still, the fading light from the window striking sparks in his hair.

Dell was standing stock still in the middle of the room, looking toward Prince's group, perhaps fifteen feet away from where he stood.

Standing stock still, he stared at the Marine marching past him into the cafeteria.

The crowd mobbed the horse, who showed his breeding by standing stock still.

We walked off down into the blue dust valley while Jigjik 2 watched, interested, standing stock still.

He was standing stock still, down the block, and his left eye was squinted shut.

"I don't know what you mean," remarked his wife in a tone perfectly casual, but standing stock still between the table and the cupboard.

Everybody else agrees about where you were at the moment of the climax: behind the dolmen, they tell us, standing stock still.

Standing stock is the weight or biomass of a stock of organisms.

The ship was standing stock still.

After rearranging the pillows, I glanced over to see what was keeping her, only to find her standing stock still, staring at the wall.

Frazil was standing stock still, staring up.

As the ground drifted up he saw the barbarian standing stock still, chest heaving, arms hanging loosely by his sides.

These simple organisms make up the majority of the standing stock of photosynthesizing marine life in this ecosystem.

To his surprise, both Havoc and Morris had halted and were standing stock still.

They overestimated the standing stock by threefold and they've allowed 24 to 30 clam boats to enter the fishery.

Standing stock still, he listened.

Behind them, standing stock still on the hillside, Shaarilla stared miserably after them until they were no longer visible.