Nutrient digestion and utilization in farm animals : modelling approaches /

• Corporate Author: International Workshop on Modelling Nutrient Utilisation in Farm Animals
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Ruminants > Congresses. > Mathematical models > Feed utilization efficiency; Animal nutrition > Congresses. > Mathematical models; Research.; Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Pollution and Degradation.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Animal Wastes.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Cattle.; Fishes.; Pigs.; Sheep.; Absorption.; Animal feeding.; Animal nutrition.; Animal wastes.; Deterministic models.; Digestion.; Domestic animals.; Environmental impact.; Feeds.; Growth.; Livestock.; Methodology.; Mineral metabolism.; Models.; Nutrients.; Nutrition physiology.; Nutritive value.; Pollution.; Poultry.; Rumen fermentation.; Stochastic models.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Item Description: This book comprises articles given as papers or presented as posters at the Sixth International Workshop on Modelling Nutrient Utilization in Farm Animals, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 6-8 September 2004.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 447 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access: Access limited to subscribing institution.

This book contains 34 chapters on nutrition physiology and presents scientific research in modelling nutrient digestion and utilization in domestic animals, including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and fishes. It is divided into 6 parts that cover fermentation, absorption and passage; growth and development; mineral metabolism; methodology and model development; environmental impacts and animal production and feed evaluation models. Deterministic, stochastic, empirical and mechanistic modelling approaches are also described. This book will be of significant interest to researchers and students of animal science, especially those concerned with nutrition modelling.