Product Description
Animal Nutrition – Concepts and Applications (2nd edition)
Author: PA Boyazoglu
Format: Physical Hardcopy
The purpose of this book is to identify nutritional needs and to gather data universally acknowledged as being relevant and beneficial for a species. Nutrition usually accounts for three-quarters and more of the expense associated with livestock production. The author has recorded experience gained in the field of animal nutrition and management over many years to address the planning of a feeding programme up to a level of optimum production on a least-cost basis.
This book would provide the reader with a knowledge of suitable feed ingredients produced economically, and blended in the most efficient manner.
Contents:
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Chapter 1 The livestock industry
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Chapter 2 Composition of feeds
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Chapter 3 Physiology of digestion
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Chapter 4 Mineral excesses, deficiencies and their correction
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Chapter 5 Vitamins and their requirements Premixes
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Chapter 6 Feed additives and their uses
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Chapter 7 Proteins and amino acids
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Chapter 8 Roughages as nutrient sources and their imbalances
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Chapter 9 Submaintenance feeding for survival
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Chapter 10 Nutrition’s role in disease resistance and the immune system
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Chapter 11 Balancing a ration with readily available ingredients for home mixing
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Chapter 12 Dairy cattle nutrition and production
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Chapter 13 Beef cattle nutrition under extensive and intensive management conditions
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Chapter 14 Sheep and goat intensive and extensive production
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Chapter 15 Pig nutrition and related imbalances
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Chapter 16 Horse nutrition for breeding and performance horses
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Chapter 17 Ostrich nutrition for commercial production and wildlife nutrient supplements
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Chapter 18 Wildlife nutrition
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Chapter 19 Nutrition of cats and dogs
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Chapter 20 Commercial poultry nutrition
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Appendix A: Water analyses: mean mineral concentrations of borehole waters in parts per million Appendix B: Postures and their uses Appendix C: The chemical composition of South African fodder plants Appendix D: Typical South African feed ingredient analyses Appendix E: Atomic mass of minerals used in animal feeds
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