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Animal Nutrition Science

G.Dryden

Broad spectrum topics on animal nutrition science

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This book covers a wider range of topics than the standard animal nutrition text and introduces the fundamental topics of animal nutrition, in a treatment which deals with terrestrial animals in general. Many references included provide the scientific basis for the text, and give signposts for the reader to extend their enquiry in topics of interest.

This is an Ideal text book for both undergraduates and graduate students studying animal nutrition sciences

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781845934125

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Type: Paperback

Pages: 480

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Availability: Available

About the author

Gordon Dryden is the principal of a consultancy specializing in animal nutrition, an associate editor of Animal Production Science, and a member of the IUCN Deer Specialist Group and the IDBC Scientific Steering Committee. He was previously senior lecturer in animal nutrition at the University of Queensland, Gatton, and has since held honorary positions at The University of Queensland and Curtin University of Technology. He has a PhD in animal nutrition from the University of New England, Australia. His research, carried out in Australia and internationally, covers sheep, cattle, deer, horses and pigs; encompassing requirements for energy, protein and water, responses to nutrient supplements, digestion and passage kinetics, animal feeding behaviour, tolerance of water salinity, and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. He has consulted internationally in animal nutrition and stock feed processing, and the design of tertiary agriculture programs in Australia, New Zealand and Timor Leste.

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Contents

SECTION ONE: Introduction to Nutritional Ecology

SECTION TWO: The Nutritive Value of Animal Foods: Introductory concepts about Foods, Nutrients and Food Analysis

SECTION THREE: Methods of Evaluating the availabilty of Nutrients in Foods

SECTION FOUR: The Physico-Chemical Composition and Digestibility of Foods

SECTION FIVE: The Nutritive Value of Animal Foods

SECTION SIX: Secondary Substances in Concentrates and Roughages

SECTION SEVEN: Digestion and the Supply of Nutrients

SECTION EIGHT: Water use and Requirements

SECTION NINE: Minerals: Their Functions and Animal Requirements

SECTION TEN: Vitamins

SECTION ELEVEN: Voluntary Food Intake

SECTION TWELVE: Quantitative Nutrition: Requirements for Maintenance and Production

SECTION THIRTEEN: Ration Formulation

SECTION FOURTEEN: Nutritional Investigations: Measures for Nutritional Status

SECTION FIFTEEN: Nutrition and the Environment

SECTION SIXTEEN: Nutritional Genomics

SECTION SEVENTEEN: Stockfood Processing: Methods and Animal Responses

SECTION EIGHTEEN: Feedmill Design and Management: An Introduction

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