Phosphorus and calcium utilization and requirements in farm animals /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Phosphorus in animal nutrition.; Calcium in animal nutrition.; Animal nutrition > Requirements.; Feeds.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Pollution and Degradation.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Animal Wastes.; Techniques and Methodology.; Ruminants.; Animal feeding.; Bioavailability.; Calcium.; Diets.; Domestic animals.; Environmental impact.; Excretion.; Isotope dilution.; Livestock.; Nutrient availability.; Nutrient requirements.; Nutrition physiology.; Phosphorus.; Pollution.; Techniques.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 10 chapters that discuss phosphorus and calcium metabolism, efficiency of utilization, availability, requirements and excretion in livestock and environmental impact.

Table of Contents:

• General introduction / E. Kebreab and D.M.S.S. Vitti
• Isotope dilution technique / D.M.S.S. Vitti and J.C. da Silva Filho
• Kinetic models for the study of phosphorus metabolism in ruminants and monogastrics / J. France, R.S. Dias, E. Kebreab, D.M.S.S. Vitti, L.A. Crompton and S. Lopez
• Phosphorus and calcium utilization in ruminants using isotope dilution technique / D.M.S.S. Vitti, J.C. da Silva Filho, H. Louvandini, R.S. Dias, I.C.S. Bueno and E. Kebreab
• Phosphorus and calcium utilization in non-ruminants using isotope dilution technique / J.B. Lopes, C.E. Furtado, J.A. Moreira, J.C. da Silva Filho, R.A. Brandi, E. Kebreab and D.M.S.S. Vitti
• Bioavailability of calcium and phosphorus in feedstuffs for farm animals / E. Kiarie and C.M. Nyachoti
• Phosphorus and calcium nutrition and metabolism / T.L. Veum
• Phosphorus and calcium requirements of ruminants / K.F. Knowlton, D.K. Beede and E. Kebreab
• Dynamics of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in laying hens / S. de Vries, R.P. Kwakkel, J. Dijkstra
• Efficiency of phosphorus and calcium utilization in dairy cattle and implications for the environment / A. Bannink, L. Šebek and J. Dijkstra.