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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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 avai...

Table of Contents:

• Nutritional Ecology
• The Nutritive Value of Animal Foods: Introductory Concepts About Foods, Nutrients and Food Analysis
• Methods of Evaluating the Availability of Nutrients in Foods
• Physico-chemical Composition and Digestibility of Forages and Cereal Grains
• The Nutritive Value of Concentrate Foods
• Secondary Substances in Concentrates and Roughages
• Digestion and the Supply of Nutrients
• Water Use and Requirements
• Minerals: Their Functions and Animal Requirements
• Vitamins
• Voluntary Food Intake
• Quantitative Nutrition: Requirements for Energy and Protein
• Ration Formulation
• Nutritional Investigations: Measures of Nutritional Status
• Nutrition and the Environment
• Nutritional Genomics
• Animal Responses to Stock Food Processing
• Feed Mill Design and Management: an Introduction.