unthriftness

The disease is quite generally distributed and may cause considerable loss and unthriftness among pigs when conditions are favorable for its development.

1957, Arthur Laurence Anderson, Raymond William Gregory, Swine Management: Including Feeding and Breeding, page 499

Health disorders that are treated with adequate selenium include white muscle muscle disease, retained placenta in cattle, reproductive failure, unthriftness and dead or weak offspring.

1981, Spooner Sheep Day

In sub acute and chronic cases, lower doses of aflatoxin produce chronic effects such as lethargy, unthriftness, lameness, hepatitis and delayed death.

2022, Jowel Debnath, Duck Production and Management

Thus you see that impatience causeth idolatry, causeth murder, brought in rebellion and unthriftness, expelled from heaven, and banished out of paradise; which things are registered for our erudition, to teach us sufference, and to beware of anger, of fierceness, of envy, which be the works of the flesh.

1842, John Bruce, The Works of Roger Hatchinson, page 338

It ignores the dangers of unthriftness and extravagance, incidental to too facile credit.

1984, T. Paranjothi, Committees and Commissions on Co-operation, page 21

It was the “unthriftness and offensive indolence” of those who “can well feed and flutter, dress and dandle and carelessly chafe away with toddy and tobacco” which had caused “the Giver of all Good” to send “this disease of the potato."

2007, Lucille H. Campey, After the Hector, page 162