Animal nutrition science /

• Main Author: Dryden, Gordon McL., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Animal nutrition > Textbooks.; Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Composition.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Agricultural and Forestry Equipment (General); Processing Equipment and Technology.; Pollution and Degradation.; Forage and Feed Products (Non-human); Forage and Feed Processing.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Techniques and Methodology.; Animal nutrition.; Cereals.; Chemical composition.; Concentrates.; Digestion.; Domestic animals.; Drinking water.; Energy requirements.; Environmental impact.; Feed formulation.; Feed grains.; Feed industry.; Feed intake.; Feed rations.; Feeds.; Fodder crops.; Food intake.; Livestock.; Methodology.; Milling.; Mills.; Minerals.; Nutrient availability.; Nutrient balance.; Nutrient requirements.; Nutrients.; Nutrigenomics.; Nutrition physiology.; Nutritive value.; Plant composition.; Pollution.; Processing.; Protein requirement.; Roughage.; Vitamins.; Water metabolism.; Water requirements.; Wild animals.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book describes how animals obtain, digest and use food and nutrients; how nutrient requirements can be quantified and how nutrient use can affect the environment. The 18 chapters include discussions on nutritional ecology, the nutritive value of animal foods, methods of evaluating nutrient availability in foods, physicochemical composition and digestibility of forages and cereal grains, the nutritive value of concentrates, secondary substances in concentrates and roughages, digestion and nutrient supply, water use and requirements, minerals, vitamins, food intake, energy and protein requirements, feed ration formulation, measurement of nutritional status, the environmental impact of animal feeding on the environment, nutritional genomics, the effect of feed processing on animal responses and feed mill design and management. The book is intended for senior undergraduate or postgraduate readers with a basic understanding of intermediary metabolism and digestive physiology and anatomy.