Sentence examples for fattening cattle from inspiring English sources

Up until the early 1970s, when the practice was prohibited, fattening cattle were given the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol as a supplement in their feed or in ear implants.

But he cautioned that farms dedicated to fattening cattle had always been bigger than those rearing them, "so actually having higher concentration of feeding cattle on units [isn't new].

Fattening cattle are usually fed from 2.2 to 3.0 percent of their live weight per day, depending on the amount of concentrates in the ration and the rate at which they are being fattened.

Industries include the manufacture of animal feeds (it has long been the principal centre for fattening cattle from the plains), fertilizers, food and dairy products, vegetable oils, soaps and detergents, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, paper, cartons, rubber goods, textiles, garments, shoes, cement, furniture, automobile accessories, and motor vehicle assembly.

Performance of fattening cattle and lactating beef cows on diets high in chemically treated wheat straw and poultry litter.

Citrus pulp: Dried citrus pulp replaced considerable amounts of barley in the diets of fattening cattle (Hadjipanayi0t0u and Louca 1976) and lactating cows (Economides 1974).

The federal law requiring yearly testing in grades three through eight is fine but, as they say on the farm, you don't fatten cattle by weighing them.

It also reflects the persistent belief in the Great Plains that the prairie dog is not a valued remnant of the short-grass prairie of the past, but a despised pest that eats grass needed to fatten cattle.

Now government incentives to fatten cattle faster are deepening a shift toward raising more Argentine beef with grains like corn and oats in often-crowded feedlots, opening the door for Uruguay to claim the grass-fed advantage.

Bleak as it looks, the Burren was known for its winter grass, which made it a good place to fatten cattle, and the flowers seem to spring out of bare rock.

"None of the inspections, none of the tests on samples of meat found traces of clenbuterol, a banned drug used to fatten cattle quickly," the antidoping agency's report said, according to El País.