Efficiency of Feed Conversion
- 25 August 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 157 (3791) , 890-895
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.157.3791.890
Abstract
Under optimum conditions, young healthy individuals of each livestock species may convert about one-third of the digestible protein in its feed into tissue protein in its body. Of this tissue protein, we use about half as food.Keywords
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