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A plunge dip (also known as a dipping vat, dipping tank or, simply, a dip) is a bath designed to immerse livestock in liquid
A plunge dip (also known as a dipping vat, dipping tank or, simply, a dip) is a bath designed to immerse livestock in liquid pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests. This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampri ...
or other treatment.
Design
Typically a dip is designed as a narrowchannel
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to:
Geography
* Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water.
Australia
* Channel Country, region of outback Austral ...
(about the width of the animal) through which the animals walk, immersing them in progressively deeper liquid until the animal is completely immersed (apart from its head so it can breathe). The channel then becomes progressively shallower until the animal exits. Because many animals can walk through the channel one after another, it is an efficient method of delivering pesticide or other liquid treatments to a large herd.
A liquid product used to treat the livestock by immersion in a plunge dip is also known as a ''dip'' (e.g. sheep dip).
See also
* ''R v Korsten
''Rex v Korsten'' is an important case in South African criminal law, with its bearing on the defence of impossibility. It was heard in the Natal Provincial Division on February 7, 1927, by Dove-Wilson JP, Carter J and Matthews J. The case was an ...
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* Cattle drenching
Cattle drenching is the process of administrating chemical solutions (anthelmintics) to cattle or ''Bos taurus'' with the purpose of protecting livestock from various parasites including worms, fluke, cattle ticks, lice and flies. Parasites hind ...
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