Sentences with phrase «calcium on a dry matter basis»

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Pet food manufacturers solve this problem by adding powdered bone meal or calcium carbonate to their pet diets until they contain 1 to 1.2 % calcium on a dry - matter basis.

Puppies need about 1 % calcium, on a dry matter basis, for foods that provide 3.5 kcal / g ME (about the average).

I have not seen a figure for the maximum amount of calcium in very high energy foods but if a dog food provides less than 3.8 kilocalories of metabolizable energy per gram of food (< 3.8 kcal / g ME) then the calcium level in the food should not exceed 1.5 % on a dry matter basis.

Control dogs fed 1.1 % calcium and 0.9 % phosphorus (all on a dry matter basis) were fed ad libitum (n = 10) or in restricted amounts (n = 6); dogs fed high calcium (3.3 %) diets received either 0.9 % phosphorus (n = 6) or 3.0 % phosphorus (n = 6); dogs fed low calcium (0.55 %) diets received either 0.9 % phosphorus (n = 5 + 6) or 0.5 % phosphorus (n = 8).