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Feeds & feeding / Tilden Wayne Perry, Arthur E. Cullison, Robert S. Lowrey.
LIBRA SF95 .P435 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Tilden Wayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feeds.
- Animal nutrition.
- Animal feeding.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 675 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Other Title:
- Feeds and feeding
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2003]
- Summary:
- This contemporary and authoritative survey provides comprehensive coverage of the nutritional and scientific feeding of beef cattle, dairy cattle, poultry, horses, sheep and swine, and offers a detailed treatment of feed composition for use in ration formulation. Topics covered include principles of animal nutrition and physiology, feed stuffs, and livestock and poultry feeding. For those in Animal Nutrition fields.
- Contents:
- Section I Principles of Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- 1 The Feed Nutrients 1
- 2 General Functions of Feed Nutrients 9
- 3 Proximate Analysis of Feedstuffs 12
- 4 Use of the Van Soest Analysis in Feed Evaluation 31
- 5 The Digestive Tract 35
- 6 Nutrient Digestion, Absorption, and Transport 39
- 7 Apparent Digestibility 44
- 8 Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) 48
- 9 Energy Utilization 53
- 11 Energy Nutrition: I Carbohydrates, II Lipids 73
- 12 Protein Nutrition 84
- 13 Mineral Nutrition
- General 99
- 14 The Macrominerals 102
- 15 The Microminerals 123
- 16 General Recommendations for Mineral Feeding 138
- 17 Vitamin Nutrition 141
- 18 Physiological Phases of Livestock Production 167
- Section II Feedstuffs
- 20 Feeds and Feed Groups
- General 195
- 21 Energy Feeds 198
- 22 High-Protein Feeds 212
- 23 Air-Dry Roughages 226
- 24 The Molasses 240
- 25 High-Moisture Feeds 243
- 26 Identifying Feeds from Their Composition 247
- 27 Hay and Hay Making 252
- 28 Silage and Haylage
- Production and Use 261
- 29 Problems of Feed Storage 274
- 30 Processing Feeds 279
- 31 Uniform State Feed Bill 286
- 32 Pastures
- General 291
- 33 Facts About Important Pasture Crops 294
- 34 General Uses of Pasture in Livestock Feeding 308
- Section III Balancing Rations
- 37 Calculating a Balanced Ration
- General 330
- 38 Balancing a Ration for a Growing and Finishing Steer 333
- 39 Balancing a Ration for a Steer Using a High Level of Roughage 339
- 40 The California System for the Net Energy Evaluation of Rations for Growing-Finishing Cattle 342
- 41 Balancing a Ration for a Dairy Cow 345
- 42 Balancing Rations for Horses 352
- 43 Balancing Rations for Sheep 356
- 44 Balancing Rations for Swine 360
- 45 Formulating a Feed Mixture Based on a Balanced Daily Ration or a Portion Thereof 367
- 46 Formulating Feed Mixtures by the Use of the Square Method 370
- 47 Use of Algebraic Equations in the Formulation of Feed Mixtures 375
- 48 Use of the Square Method for Formulating a Balanced Ration Mixture for a Finishing Steer 380
- 49 Formulation of a Balanced Ration Mixture for Lactating Sows 383
- 50 Calculating and Altering Levels of Nutrients in Feed Mixtures 386
- 51 Formulating and Using Premixes 391
- 52 Computerized Least-Cost Rations 397
- 53 Estimating Feed Requirements 400
- 54 Weights, Measures, Volumes, and Capacities 404
- Section IV Livestock and Poultry Feeding
- 55 Feeding Beef Cattle 407
- 56 Feeding Dairy Cattle 425
- 57 Veal Production 443
- 58 Feeding Horses 451
- 59 Feeding Chickens 459
- 60 Feeding Turkeys 468
- 61 Feeding Sheep 472
- 62 Feeding Swine 480
- 63 Use of Performance Modifiers 490
- 64 Feeding Animal Wastes and Snackfood By-products 500
- 65 Aflatoxin in Feeds 507
- A Tables on Nutrient Requirements 530.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0130970476
- OCLC:
- 49383846
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