The phrase "alternative feeds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different sources or types of information, resources, or food options that serve as substitutes for the primary ones.
Example: "Farmers are increasingly exploring alternative feeds to reduce costs and improve sustainability in their livestock operations."
Alternatives: "substitute feeds" or "replacement feeds".
Several alternative feeds exist with an added value, as they enhance FA with potential health benefits and the stability of the milk with higher antioxidative activity, even though responses to test feeds differed largely.
Foliages and pods of tropical legumes are alternative feeds for sheep which may contribute to improvement of their productive performance, and secondary metabolites such as tannins and saponins in the pods of Acacia pennatula and Enterolobium cyclocarpum may contribute to reducing methane production in the rumen.
Alternative feeds are introduced early as a normal supplement to child nourishment.
But there are situations such as maternal death where alternative feeds are introduced as a matter of necessity.
Expansion of aquaculture requires alternative feeds and breeding strategies to reduce dependency on fish oil (FO) and better utilization of dietary vegetable oil (VO).
Additionally these results can assist in selection of molecular biomarkers useful for the development of new alternative feeds in salmonid aquaculture.
The alternative, feeding babies infant formula, is an excellent second-best option, one that has clearly succeeded in nourishing millions of healthy children.
Its architects envisioned a sleek alternative to all those blue and yellow umbrellas, one that might possibly propel a few carts to seek alternative feeding grounds down the avenue.
Forage species composition and availability of alternative feeding areas had an effect on waterfowl grazing damage to perennial forage fields.
An understanding of the cellular events that occur in skeletal muscle when fish undergo periods of fasting and refeeding provides information useful in developing alternative feeding strategies for improving muscle growth in commercially cultivated species.
"There's archaeological evidence right down to the ancients of bottles of various kinds and alternative feeding methods," says Ellie Lee, director of the centre for parenting cultural studies at the University of Kent.
