How to say "feeding" in Japanese

• 餌やりえさやり
  nounThe everyday act of giving food to animals, as in feeding pets or zoo animals. This is the natural choice in ordinary conversation about feeding animals.
• 給餌きゅうじ
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbFeeding an animal, viewed as the provision of feed. A formal, technical term typical of veterinary, aquaculture, or scientific writing rather than daily speech.
• フィーディング
  nounA katakana borrowing of 'feeding'. It appears mainly in specialist or borrowed contexts, such as technical discussions, and is rarely the word learners need for everyday use.
• 摂餌せつじ
  nounFeeding understood especially from the animal's side, as the taking in of food. A technical term used in biological or scientific descriptions of animals feeding.
• 採餌さいじ
  noun, suru verbFeeding by animals with emphasis on obtaining or foraging for food. A technical term suited to scientific accounts of how animals find and acquire food.

For everyday feeding of animals use 「餌やり」; 給餌 suits formal or technical provision of feed; 摂餌 and 採餌 describe feeding from the animal's side, while 「フィーディング」 is a katakana loanword used in specialist contexts.

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• 餌やりえさやりfeeding (animals)
• 給餌きゅうじfeeding (an animal)
• フィーディングfeeding
• 摂餌せつじfeeding (esp. by animals)
• 採餌さいじfeeding (by animals)
• 摂食せっしょくeating
• 採食さいしょくforaging
• 索餌さくじforaging
• 頭出しあたまだしcueing (e.g. a magnetic tape, recording) (cuing)