provender - food for domestic livestockfood, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue blood meal - the dried and powdered blood of animals cattle cake - a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes creep feed - feed given to young animals isolated in a creep fodder - coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop ensilage, silage - fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo oil cake - mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk mash - mixture of ground animal feeds mast - nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine fish meal - ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock |