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Book SynopsisWritten by leading researchers from the USA, Canada and Europe, this is an essential reference tool for researchers and advanced students in animal nutrition. Farm livestock have evolved digestive systems that are capable of digesting fibrous materials and by-products unsuited for man. Throughout the world, production from farm livestock is concerned with providing food and clothing of animal origin for man. Animal production science underpins this goal and provides the scientific basis for livestock management practices. Feed evaluation concerns the use of methods to describe animal feedstuffs with respect to their ability to sustain different types and levels of animal performance. The main themes of the book are methods of feed evaluation, current feeding systems, and mechanistic mathematical modelling. No other title brings together methods, systems and models under one cover.
Table of Contents1: Feed Evaluation for Animal Production, J France, MK Theodorou, RS Lowman and DE Beever 2: Feed Characterisation, A Chesson 3: Intake, Passage and Digestibility, DP Poppi, J France and SR McLennan 4: In Vitro and In Situ Methods for Estimating Digestibility with Reference to Protein Degradability, GA Broderick and RC Cochran 5: Measurement of Energy Metabolism, C K Reynolds 6: Feeding Systems for Dairy Cows, S Tamminga and G Hof 7: Feeding Systems for Beef Cattle, JG Buchanan-Smith and DG Fox 8: Feeding Systems for Sheep, LA Sinclair and RG Wilkinson 9: Feeding Systems for Pigs, LI Chiba 10: Feeding Systems for Poultry, S Leeson and JD Summers 11: Feeding Systems for Horses, D Cuddeford 12: Prediction of Response to Nutrients by Ruminants Through Mathematical Modelling and Improved Feed Characterization, DE Beever, J France and G Alderman 13: Analyses of Modelling Whole Rumen Function, J Dijkstra and A Bannink 14: Modelling the Lactating Dairy Cow, RL Baldwin and KC Donovan 15: Modelling Growth and Wool Production in Ruminants, WJ Gerrits and J Dijkstra 16: Modelling Growth and Lactation in Pigs, JL Black 17: Modelling the Utilization of Dietary Energy and Amino Acids by Poultry, MG MacLeod 18: Modelling Growth in Fish, Y Cui and S Xie 19: The Nutrition of Companion Animals, AC Longland, MK Theodorou and IH Burger 20: Index
