Sentence examples for pound of feed from inspiring English sources

Feed conversion ratios for several aquaculture fish species are approaching 1 1, meaning that for every pound of feed, a fish gains one pound.

Provocative as that sounds, insects do meet the test of environmental sustainability: they create far more edible protein per pound of feed as cattle.

Weanling foals require three pounds of feed per hundred pounds of live weight per day; as they approach maturity, this requirement drops to one pound of feed per hundred pounds of live weight daily.

Broad spectrum antibiotics at the rate of five to 10 milligrams per pound of feed are normally used in all lamb finishing rations to prevent digestive disturbances and infections.

The one thing farmed salmon has going for it is that the fish are, as Roberts says, "efficient feed converters": salmon require only a little more than a pound of feed for every pound of weight that they gain.

Mellon et al. generated information on the average concentration of each combination per pound of feed and assumed that feeds contained 80% of the maximum concentration dose allowed by the FDA.

Raising more animals will require copious feed; one full steer requires around 3,000 pounds of feed.

These are the people who disperse 50 to 100 pounds of feed every day.