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Science 25 August 1967:
Vol. 157. no. 3791, pp. 890 - 895
DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3791.890
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Efficiency of Feed Conversion

T. C. Byerly 1

1 Cooperative State Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

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.

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