The aim of the present study was to evaluate the vitamin and mineral content of bone and raw food rations fed to adult dogs in Germany. Pet owners completed a standardised feeding questionnaire. The composition of 95 rations was calculated from mean data for foodstuffs using nutrition balancing software. Typical ration ingredients were meats, fish, offal, dairy products, eggs, oil, nuts, cod li...

Crossbred ewe lambs initially weighing approximately 90 lb (41 kg) were fed rations varying in roughage level prior to breeding to examine the influence of level of dietary energy upon subsequent reproductive performance when bred as lambs. In the two trials conducted over a 2-year period 200 spring-born Iambs were placed in four lots of 25 lambs each year and received rations containing 12% cr...

The paper analyses the costs of production roughage and nutritive fodder fattening HF Limousine crossbreds feeder cattle. growing for cattle were calculated per one hectare. cost producing tonne feed was determined based on farm’s mean crop yield. calculation included maintenance, including feeding 14 animals over 22 months. kept untethered in stalls with deep litter from body weight 36.86 kg t...

Food technology has been instrumental in ensuring that troops remain “fit to fight”. Early food technologies produced flat bread, hard biscuits, cheese and salted meat, allowing Roman legionaries to carry rations for several days. Canning was invented in the late 18th century in response to the French Government’s offer of a substantial reward to the person whose invention would allow troops to...

A twoto four-fold increase in corn prices in recent years over historical trends has prompted many questions about alternatives to corn for dairy rations. As corn is a low protein high energy feedstuff, its continued use even with high prices or concern over its partial replacement is mainly confined to rations for lactating cows where meeting the energy requirements of milk production is impor...

however, that even though most of the recent nutrition studies with mice have been made with diets containing about 25 per cent casein, the protein concentration of the usual rations fed to breeding colonies has been con siderably less. Dawburn (3) has reported good growth with a diet contain ing 15.6 per cent casein. A careful reading of the published data has re vealed that both Wheeler and B...