Weaning represents a significant challenge to every young piglet and the success of the process is crucial to the lifetime performance of the animal. The transition from a liquid diet to one that is usually based on dry food ingredients is accompanied by major changes in digesti…
Modelling nutrient utilization in farm animals
Modelling nutrient utilization in farm animals
by McNamara, J. P., (John P.), France, J., Beever, D. E.
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This book presents edited and revised versions of papers presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Modelling Nutrient Utilization in Farm Animals, held at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 25-28 October 1999. There are 31 chapters and 6 sections entitl…
NorFor is a semi-mechanistic feed evaluation system for cattle, which is used by advisors in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This book describes in detail the system and it covers five main sections. The first is concerned with information on feed characteristics, feed anal…
Textbook of veterinary physiology
This book contains key contributions to the Xth International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology. Proceedings from past ISRP symposia have had a major influence on research and teaching in animal science over the years. Without a doubt the peer-reviewed chapters in this book, writ…
Covers the whole field of nutrition. Describes the major foods and nutrients and their functions in healthy humans of all ages, and the nutritional management of clinical disease states. Takes into account current problems facing nutritionists: the fact that disease prevalence i…
Feed efficiency in swine
The book has been prepared as a comprehensive treatise on the current state of our understanding of this topic which is so important to the pork industry. It provides insight into the many factors affecting feed efficiency, ranging from diet processing to herd health, from nutri…