The answer may influence a growing controversy in the United States over the widespread and routine use of antibiotics to fatten feed animals like pigs.
Castro M., Juana Diaz, Lezcano P., Elias A. and Iglesias M., 1990 : Feeding for fattening pigs fed molasses B diets and Sacharina feed.
Yaylak et al. (2003) found higher live weight when fed fattening lambs with pelletized feed than the mash feed with lower feed to gain ratio.
(If it's turkey, be aware that this natural insectivore was probably fattened on feed containing meat, sawdust and "leather tannery by-products").
Last year, for instance, the F.D.A. reported that millions of Americans had eaten chicken fattened on feed with melamine-tainted gluten imported from China.
Kalman, who lives alone with three glowering cats that he is fattening by feeding them lumps of lard, is regularly visited by his resentful son, Lajos Marc Bischofff), a sallow, cadaverous taxidermist.
This study investigated the effects of sugar beet pulp (SBP) and roasted canola seed (RCS) on performance, carcass traits, muscle composition and meat sensory properties in fattening lambs fed a concentrate diet.
The experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of malate supplementation (Rumalato, 160 g/kg disodium malate and 840 g/kg calcium malate) and starch source on digestibility and N and energy balances of fattening lambs fed concentrate and barley straw ad libitum.
Yaylak et al. (2003) found more live weight when fed fattening lambs with pelletized than the mash feed with lower feed to gain ratio.
After a few months they fatten up, feeding on emerging invertebrates as the weather warms, an easy source of food which makes the fish even more plump.
