Feeding the Dairy Cow is a comprehensive and best selling guide for farmers and advisers who wish to become more adept at solving nutritional problems and at devising improved diets for efficient milk production. The book covers the whole subject of dairy cow nutrition from what the requirements of a dairy cow are through to how to formulate a ration for different stages of development.

Perfect for Farmers, Advisers or Students who want more information about dairy cow nutrition.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE: Feeds
  • SECTION TWO: Grass
  • SECTION THREE: Supplementary feeds
• PART TWO: Animal Requirements
  • SECTION FOUR: Voluntary feed intake
  • SECTION FIVE: Energy
  • SECTION SIX: Protein
  • SECTION SEVEN: Minerals and vitamins
• PART THREE: Diet formulation
  • SECTION EIGHT: Predicting feed intake
  • SECTION NINE: Calculating metabolisable energy supply and requirements
  • SECTION TEN: Calculating metabolisable protein supply and requirements
  • SECTION ELEVEN: Calculating mineral requirements
• PART FOUR: Practical dairy cow feeding
  • SECTION TWELVE: Designing Diets and Feeding Systems
  • SECTION THIRTEEN: Manipulating the composition of milk
  • SECTION FOURTEEN: Feeding the high-yielding cow
  • SECTION FIFTEEN: Feeding the cow before and after calving
  • SECTION SIXTEEN: Nutrition, fertility and lameness
  • SECTION SEVENTEEN: Assessing nutritional status
  • SECTION EIGHTEEN: Practical diet formulation
• PART FIVE: Computer program supplement & exercises
  • SECTION NINETEEN: Computer program Supplement & Exercises
• PART SIX: Tables
  • SECTION TWENTY: Tables of requirements and feed analyses