Animal nutrition science /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxfordshire, UK. :
CABI,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Nutritional ecology - - 2. The nutritive value of animal foods : introductiory concepts about foods, nutrients and food analysis - - 3. Methods of evaluating the availability of nutrients in foods - - 4. Physico-chemical composition and digestibility of forages and cereal grains - - 5. The nutritive value of concentrate foods - - 6. Secondary substances in concentrates and roughages - - 7. Digestion and the supply of nutrients - - 8. Water use and requirements - - 9. Minerals : their functions and animal requirements - - 10. Vitamins - - 11. Voluntary food intake - - 12. Quantitative nutrition : requirements for energy and protein - - 13. Ration formulation - - 14. Nutritional investigations : measures of nutritional status - - 15. Nutrition and the environment - - 16. Nutritional genomics - - 17. Animal responses to stock food processing - - 18. Feed mill design and management : an introduction.