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Veterinary Medicine vocabulary · Nutrition, Husbandry and Welfare

Feed

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/fiːd/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, feed means: Food given to farm animals, such as hay, silage, grain or compound feed. As a verb, feed means to give food to an animal.

In Turkish: yem, yemlemek, beslemek

How it is used

As a noun it is used mostly for livestock and horses: feed intake, feed costs, feed efficiency. Vets and nutritionists talk about the ration and the quality of forage and concentrates. For pets, people usually say food.

Example sentences

  1. Feed intake drops when the cows are lame.

  2. How much hard feed is the horse getting each day?

  3. We feed the calves twice a day until weaning.

Common collocations

  • feed intake
  • compound feed
  • feed efficiency
  • feed costs
  • feed ration
  • dietThe food and drink an animal regularly has, or a special feeding plan used to manage a health problem, such as a kidney diet or a weight-loss diet.
  • husbandryThe everyday care and management of farm animals, including housing, feeding, breeding, hygiene and handling.
  • ruminantA plant-eating animal with a four-compartment stomach that chews the cud, such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer.
  • body condition scoreA number on a fixed scale that describes how thin or fat an animal is, judged by looking at and feeling the ribs, spine, waist and hips.

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