Sentences with phrase «food pellets»

Even though guinea pig food pellets include vitamin C, retailers can encourage guinea pig owners to buy vitamin C tablets to feed their pets by hand.

In their trials with mice, the researchers gave each mouse special high - fat food pellets for one hour every day, for 10 consecutive days.

Your hamster will need fresh food pellets or blocks and plenty of fresh water every day.

She also cited weather conditions for the suspension; the poison food pellets would not work without at least five rain - free days.

Although this vitamin is included in guinea pig food pellets, retailers should encourage guinea pig owners to buy special guinea pig vitamin C tablets to feed their pets by hand.

They gave six mice high - fat food pellets one hour a day for 10 days (after which all the mice were binge eating).

Farmed salmon on the other hand are fed on man made food pellets made from a mish mash of feed including a mixture of smaller fish such as whitebait and herring, GMO soy beans, yeast and chicken feathers.

- for every pound of farmed salmon, four pounds of wild fish are need for food pellets.

Correct guesses resulted in the delivery of a tasty food pellet.

Just 1.75 kilos of food pellets produce about a kilo of meat and approximately 1.7 kilos of CO2 equivalent methane gas, which is why the chickens are considered climate smart.

The mice were trained for five days to use their left front paws to retrieve food pellets from a dispenser designed to test their dexterity.

Another problem, according to the USDA Agricultural service, is that mites often get into dog food pellets, which can cause a number of problems such as disease.

To test his idea, he and his colleagues fed food pellets containing bromophenols to several freshwater species.

Chicken food pellets and lucerne pellets are excellent in the litter tray.

Everything is terrible at 6 a.m. Unless you're my cat, in which case it's time for crunchy food pellet breakfast, yum!

If you have a pond and need a lot of fish food for the money, HARTZ makes a good goldfish food pellet that will keep your fish healthy and your pond or aquarium sparkling clean!

On the other hand, the stroke animals, whose front legs were paralyzed, underwent physical training — namely, gripping food pellets.

They placed feeding machines that dispensed different flavored food pellets at the end of each spoke: cherry, chocolate, banana, or plain.

Following an initial period of instrumental training, BAC WT and BAC MT mice were tested for their ability to discriminate 2 complex visual stimuli (discrimination phase), where nosepokes to the correct touchscreen stimulus were rewarded by delivery of a sweetened 14 mg food pellet reward, and nosepokes to the incorrect touchscreen stimulus resulted in a brief blackout period where the screens became inoperative, followed by correction trials until the correct response was made.

They observed the brain signal in mice just before they indulged in high - calorie food pellets and found that delivering a small electrical pulse directly to the nucleus accumbens, the brain's reward center, prevented the mice from eating the fatty food.

In the contrast, salmons raised at farms feeds on food pellets, which contain only the synthetic version of asthaxanthin.

On the other hand, farm raised salmon are fattened up unnaturally with grain / soy based food pellets which detrimentally changes the salmon's fat ratio of omega - 6 to omega - 3.

Besides being too soft and small to wear teeth down properly, processed food pellets require less chewing time, and cause the rabbit to chew in an up - and - down motion rather than a natural side - to - side motion that helps to grind the teeth down.

Rabbits and guinea pigs require species - specific food pellets, including one with added vitamin C for guinea pigs.

The best way to offer food pellets is in a food hopper or dish attached to the side of the cage.

They are compressed food pellets and are designed to meet a hamster's nutritional requirements.

Most overweight rabbits are being fed far too much concentrated food pellets and a neutered, healthy, adult rabbit only needs about 1 tablespoon per Kg of bodyweight per day of concentrated food.

Using operant conditioning, Skinner trained rats to push a lever that released food pellets.

Marketing Tips Retailers should instruct all staff members to be on the lookout for customers buying food pellets for herbivores and engage them in conversation.

For instance, when commercial food pellets were first made for rabbits, guinea pigs and chinchillas, they were composed primarily of alfalfa hay.

Guinea pigs have a vitamin C deficiency, so give a daily vitamin C supplement, fortified food pellets, and vitamin C packed fresh orange slices as treats.

Despite protests from animal - rights groups, the park service last fall completed a two - year project to eradicate up to 3,000 black rats from the three islets that make up Anacapa by dropping poison - laced food pellets.

reward (In animal behavior) A stimulus, such as a tasty food pellet, that is offered to an animal or person to get them to change their behavior or to learn a task.

In some instances, a foreign object (such as a strand of hay, or a bit of food pellet) lodged in the nasal passage has been found to be the cause of runny nose and apparent chronic nasal infection.

The loss of mGluR5 or p11 appeared to dampen the GABA neurons» signaling, as shown by the mice's increased willingness to pick up food pellets from an open field — a proxy measure for resilience from depression and anxiety.

As Andreessen explains, using this technique means that» [e] ach time you do something, you get to write it down and you get that little rush of endorphins that the mouse gets every time he presses the button in his cage and gets a food pellet.»

It's just like the classic behavioral conditioning «Skinner Box» experiments that train lab mice to press a lever to get a food pellet whenever a light comes on.

B.F. Skinner trained lab rats to press a lever and get a food pellet as reward whenever a light came on.

Alas it is futile never - the-less we persist because like the pigeon pecking for a food pellet the random reward as we observe it serves to reinforce our belief.

They then offered the rats a choice between two levers: one that delivered a food pellet immediately and another that delivered two pellets after a delay ranging from 1 to 30 seconds.

They will test the effectiveness of the compound, given as food pellets to rats and mice, to find out if cordycepin can prevent pain occurring after an injury to a joint, and also whether it relieves existing pain.

They also knew it is required for the perception of stimuli that a mouse experiences in activities such as touching a food pellet.

Adding bromophenols which have a shrimp - like flavour — to the food pellets given to farmed fish makes them tastier, says Lindsay.

In the first test, they taught the rats to hit a lever to score one of two possible treats: a sip of a sugary solution or a food pellet.

First she taught archerfish that spitting at a cursor she moved around on a screen would result in food pellets.