Conversion of nitrogen values to protein was calculated using a factor of 6.25 for meat, fish, maize and beans; 6.38 for milk; 6.31 for millet; 5.95 for rice; and 6.25 for other meals where a conversion factor is not specified [ 17].
Equivalent development occurred in the exploitation of the huge resources of small pelagic fish, mainly for conversion into fish meal.
However, Watkins et al. (1993) reported an increased feed intake with cottonseed meal and a higher feed conversion ratio (FCR) compared with soybean meal-based diets.
Nikolic et al. [ 54] used ultrasound-assisted treatment for direct conversion of corn meal into bioethanol but the cost related to this method in amount of energy consumption is very high.
At the end of the experiment, the frequencies of 6, 24, and 46 meals d− 1 provided feed conversion rates of 2.31, 1.88 and 1.20, respectively.
How the conversion of living cells into a meal could happen would depend on what kind of cells they were and on the microenvironment.
Neither was growth or feed conversion affected by 3 and 6% algae replacing fish meal.
In addition, in vivo performance of pigs fed with the pelleted diet turned out to be more favourable than those of pigs fed with the mixed meal diet, in terms of body weight at slaughter and feed conversion ratio.
Water conversion can be a win for consumers too -- their meal will always be enhanced by a quality beverage choice.... Twentypercentt of tap water drinkers at both lunch and dinner say they "choose" water "because it's there".
Feed conversion ratio of the birds also linearly decreased with the potato meal in the diets.
