By Chamberlain, A. T. and Wilkinson, J. M., , 1996
Description
This book is a comprehensive guide for farmers, advisers and students. Its emphasis is on practical diet formulation and on nutritional diagnosis on farms. Chapters cover the following: introduction; feeds (grass and supplementary feeds); voluntary feed intake; energy; protein; minerals and vitamins; predicting feed intake; calculating metabolizable energy supply and requirements; calculating metabolizable protein supply and requirements; calculating mineral requirements; designing diets and feeding systems; manipulating the composition of milk; feeding the high-yielding cow; feeding the cow before and after calving; nutrition, fertility and lameness; assessing nutritional status; practical diet formulation; and exercises. A floppy disc containing a condensed version of a commercial ration formulation program is provided with the book
This book is a comprehensive guide for farmers, advisers and students. Its emphasis is on practical diet formulation and on nutritional diagnosis on farms. Chapters cover the following: introduction; feeds (grass and supplementary feeds); voluntary feed intake; energy; protein; minerals and vitamins; predicting feed intake; calculating metabolizable energy supply and requirements; calculating metabolizable protein supply and requirements; calculating mineral requirements; designing diets and feeding systems; manipulating the composition of milk; feeding the high-yielding cow; feeding the cow before and after calving; nutrition, fertility and lameness; assessing nutritional status; practical diet formulation; and exercises. A floppy disc containing a condensed version of a commercial ration formulation program is provided with the book
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