Sheep nutrition /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with CSIRO Publishing, 2002.
• Subjects: Sheep > Nutrition.; Sheep > Feeding and feeds.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (General); Sheep.; Animal husbandry.; Feed intake.; Feed supplements.; Grazing.; Herbage.; Lactation.; Microbial flora.; Mineral nutrition.; Nutrition.; Nutritive value.; Pastures.; Pregnancy.; Reference works.; Rumen.; Sheepmeat.; Vitamin supplements.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The principles of nutrition and nutritional management of grazing sheep are discussed in terms of feeding for maintenance, during conception and pregnancy, during lactation, for sheepmeat production, and for sheep under rangeland conditions. The book elaborates on the nutritive value of herbage, deleterious substances in grazed pastures, food preferences, constraints on feed intake, principles of supplementary feeding as well as trace element and vitamin nutrition under sheep-grazing systems. Microbial ecology of the ovine rumen, digestion and metabolism, and interactions between gastrointestinal parasites and nutrients are also discussed.