Dairy sheep nutrition /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English; Italian
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Sheep > Feeding and feeds.; Ewes > Feeding and feeds.; Sheep > Nutrition.; Sheep milk.; Ewes > Nutrition.; Dairy Animals.; Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (General); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Milk and Dairy Produce.; Food Composition and Quality.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Sheep.; Animal nutrition.; Ewe feeding.; Ewe milk.; Ewes.; Feed intake.; Grazing.; Lamb feeding.; Mathematical models.; Metabolic disorders.; Milk production.; Milk quality.; Milk yielding animals.; Nutrient requirements.; Nutritional disorders.; Reproduction.; Sheep farming.; Sheep feeding.; Stocking rate.; Electronic books.
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Sheep milking is widespread throughout the Mediterranean, and is becoming more common in countries such as the UK, USA, Central America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Good nutrition is a critical factor in optimizing dairy production from sheep. This book is a translation of a popular Ita...

Table of Contents:

• Milk production / Giuseppe Pulina and Anna Nudda
• Mathematical modelling of milk production patterns in dairy sheep / Aldo Cappio-Borlino, Nicolò P.P. Macciotta, and Giuseppe Pulina
• Energy and protein requirements / Antonello Cannas
• Dietary intake of vitamins and minerals, and water requirements / Giovanni Annicchiarico and Luigi Taibi
• Feed intake / Marcella Avondo and Lucio Lutri
• Feeding of lactating ewes / Antonello Cannas
• Nutrition and reproduction / Salvatore Pier Giacomo Rassu, Giuseppe Enne, Sebastiano Ligios and Giovanni Molle
• Nutrition and milk quality / Anna Nudda, Gianni Battacone, Roberta Bencini and Giuseppe Pulina
• Feeding dairy lambs / Paolo Brandano, Salvatore Pier Giacomo Rassu and Alfio Lanza
• Digestive disturbances and metabolic-nutritional disorders / Massimo Morgante
• Grazing management and stocking rate with particular reference to the Mediterranean environments / Giovanni Molle, Mauro Decandia, Sebastiano Ligios, Nicola Fois, Timothy T. Treacher and Maria Sitzia.