Sheep nutrition / edited by M. Freer and H. Dove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freer, M. (Mike)

Dove, H. (Hugh)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sheep--Feeding and feeds.

Sheep.

Sheep--Nutrition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CABI Pub. in association with CSIRO Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a review of the current state of knowledge on all aspects of sheep nutrition. The main emphasis is on sheep grazing in systems that range from intensively utilized sown pastures to extensive rangelands.

Contents:

Contributors; Preface; 1 Nutritive Value of Herbage; 2 Constraints on Feed Intake by Grazing Sheep; 3 Food Choice; 4 Microbial Ecology of the Ovine Rumen; 5 Digestion and Metabolism; 6 Principles of Supplementary Feeding in Sheep-grazing Systems; 7 Nutrition for Maintenance; 8 Nutrition and Wool Growth; 9 Nutrition for Conception and Pregnancy; 10 Nutrition during Lactation; 11 Nutrition for Sheep-meat Production; 12 Nutrition of Sheep under Rangeland Conditions; 13 Trace-element and Vitamin Nutrition of Grazing Sheep; 14 Interactions between Gastrointestinal Parasites and Nutrients; 15 Deleterious Substances in Grazed Pastures; 16 The Nutritional Management of Grazing Sheep; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-82981-8

9786610829811

0-85199-877-1

OCLC:

476061288