Feed conversion ratio
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Feed conversion rate; Feed conversion efficiency; Feed conversion; Food conversion efficiency; Food conversion ratio; Food conversion rate; FIFO ratio; Feed efficiency
In animal husbandry, feed conversion ratio (FCR) or feed conversion rate is a ratio or rate measuring of the efficiency with which the bodies of livestock convert animal feed into the desired output. For dairy cows, for example, the output is milk, whereas in animals raised for meat (such as beef cows,Dan Shike, University of Illinois Beef Cattle Feed Efficiency pigs, chickens, and fish) the output is the flesh, that is, the body mass gained by the animal, represented either in the final mass of the animal or the mass of the dressed output.