Sentence examples for intensive feeding from inspiring English sources

When the intensive feeding begins,, the ducks are 14 weeks old and their livers weigh 3 ounces.

After a lengthy midday rest, late afternoon is usually the most intensive feeding period.

Farmed tilapia reaches its sales weight of about two pounds in roughly nine months of intensive feeding.

Our results suggest more intensive feeding and limited burrowing in wetter soil than drier soil.

After 30 days of intensive feeding, the farm sends the birds to slaughter, producing a prized gastronomic delight from their swollen, succulent livers: foie gras.

He gives facts and figures: the chicks spend two weeks "acclimatising" in the nursery, 12 weeks outside, then 13 days of intensive feeding starting with 200g of corn mix a day, which is gradually increased to a kilogram a day.

Given their large bodies and energy-intensive feeding style, flamingos do what they can to conserve energy.

For B-lymphocytes, two major explanations for anergy developed over the last decades: according to Varela theory, anergy stems from a proper orchestration of the whole B-repertoire, such that self-reactive clones, due to intensive feed-back from other clones, display strong inertia when mounting a response.

In Florida's case, intensive feed lots are not common, but the other two land-use types are.

With the increasing of the intensity of pond fish culture, because of the accelerated biological activity (intensive manuring, feeding, high stocking density) the natural oxygen supply becomes more and more insufficient and will be a limiting factor in production.

In birds, mosquito-borne blood parasites reach their peak parasitemia (parasites/red blood cell) during the breeding season [23], which may reflect intensive mosquito feeding on brooding and nestling birds.