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Recent Examples of hand-feedBilly and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025 Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.—Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024 But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024 Guests can snorkel the artificial Grand Reef teeming with fish and graceful rays, spend hours floating the lazy river that winds under waterfalls, and hand-feed birds in the aviary.—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024 Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024 Beyond the bustle of cleaning wounds and hand-feeding animals — some of the babies need to be fed every one to two hours — there’s the sheer amount of housekeeping that goes into caring for this many animals.—Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.
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Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.
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