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Nutrient requirements of cats / Subcommittee on Cat Nutrition, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nutrient requirements of domestic animals
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cats--Food.
- Cats.
- Animal nutrition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This 1986 edition provides a comprehensive review of feline nutrition. Updated since the last edition, it includes new estimates of amino acid requirements, expanded sections on feed ingredients, new requirements for essential fatty acids, information about toxic substances, and extensively revised tables of feed ingredients and their nutritional values. In addition, guidelines for formulating diets that contain natural feedstuffs are given.
- Contents:
- Nutrient Requirements of Cats
- Copyright
- Preface
- SUBCOMMITTEE ON CAT NUTRITION
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Nutrient Requirements
- ENERGY
- Energy Content of Diets and Ingredients
- Basis for Establishing Energy Requirements
- Requirements for Adult Maintenance
- Requirements for Growth
- Requirements for Gestation and Lactation
- Energy Allowances
- CARBOHYDRATES
- Digestibility
- FAT
- Analytical Procedures
- Dietary Fat Concentration
- Essential Fatty Acids (EFA)
- Signs of Deficiency
- PROTEIN
- Nitrogen Requirements of Cats
- Arginine
- Histidine
- Isoleucine
- Leucine
- Lysine
- Methionine
- Phenylalanine
- Threonine
- Tryptophan
- Valine
- Amino Acid Availability from the Diet
- Amino Acid Interactions
- Taurine (Feline Central Retinal Degeneration)
- Requirements
- MINERALS
- Calcium and Phosphorus
- Signs of Deficiency and Imbalance
- Magnesium
- Potassium
- Sodium and Chloride
- Iron and Copper
- Iodine
- Signs of Deficiency or Toxicity
- Zinc
- Manganese
- Cobalt
- Selenium
- Sulfur, Fluorine, Molybdenum, Tin, Silicon, Nickel, Vanadium, and Chromium
- EFFECT OF ACID-BASE BALANCE ON NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS
- VITAMINS
- Vitamin A
- Signs of Toxicity
- Vitamin D
- Sigs of Toxicity
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin K
- Thiamin
- Riboflavin
- Vitamin B6
- Niacin
- Signs of Deficiency.
- Pantothenic Acid
- Folacin
- Biotin
- Vitamin B12
- Choline
- Ascorbic Acid
- 3 Water
- 4 Formulated Diets for Cats
- DRY-TYPE CAT FOODS
- SEMIMOIST CAT FOODS
- CANNED CAT FOODS
- NUTRIENT CONTENT OF COMMERCIAL DIETS
- GUIDELINES FOR FORMULATING DIETS FROM NATURAL INGREDIENTS
- Protein Amino Acids
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- 5 Other Food Constituents
- FOOD ADDITIVES
- BENZOIC ACID AND RELATED COMPOUNDS
- COLOR
- SODIUM NITRITE
- PROPYLENE GLYCOL (1,2 PROPANEDIOL)
- OTHER FOOD ITEMS
- 6 Composition of Feeds
- METABOLIZABLE ENERGY (ME)
- NOMENCLATURE
- LOCATING NAMES IN THE TABLES
- Tables
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-22178-X
- 9786610221783
- 0-309-53449-6
- 0-585-03764-7
- OCLC:
- 43474575
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