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You're right about buildings and feedlots. I'm not from USA, we don't really have feedlots here. I must have been thinking about dairy cows, pigs and chickens.

• dgacmu 4y ago
  Correct, most chickens are raised in enclosed buildings. And most pigs are farmed intensively, whether that be fully outside or with a roof. Dairy cows in the US are a mix of confined and pastured; it's kind of an ongoing experiment. Dairy calves are more likely to be raised in some form of shelter/confinement than beef calves. (Here, a "beef calf" is one being raised specifically with the intent to raise it for slaughter; many dairy cows will end up becoming beef eventually but the path to getting there is different.) Beef cattle outnumber dairy cattle about 3:1 in the US.