Voluntary food intake and diet selection in farm animals /

• Main Author: Forbes, J. M. 1940- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Food preferences.; Animal nutrition.; Ingestion > Regulation.; Animal Nutrition (General); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Animal feeding.; Diets.; Feed intake.; Feeding preferences.; Livestock.; Electronic books.
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This book contains an up to date and more focused examination of developments in the understanding of voluntary food intake and new ideas and studies related to diet selection. New chapters are introduced and old ones are rewritten and reorganized in a more readable style by using extensive referenc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Feeding behaviour
• Feedbacks from the gastrointestinal tract
• Metabolites and hormones
• Central nervous system and the special senses
• Learning about food : conditioned preferences and aversions
• Diet selection : principles
• Diet selection : practicalities
• Integrative theories of food intake control
• Minimal total discomfort
• Diet digestibility, energy concentration and supplementation of forages
• Protein and other nutrients
• Appetites for specific nutrients
• Silage
• Growth and fattening
• Reproduction and lactation
• Environmental factors affecting intake.