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CONTENTS:
SECTION ONE: The new-born ruminant

• Nutrition of the new-born
• Artificial rearing
• Training the young to drink from a rearing devide
• Whole milk
• Composition of milk substitutes
• Consumption of solid feed
• When to wean to solid feed
• Protein requirements of weaned animals
• Feeding protein supplements via the oesophageal groove
• Late weaning to solid feed

SECTION TWO: Fermentation in the Rumen

• Principles of fermentation
• Advantages and disadvantages of forestomach and hind gut fermentation
• Speed of fermentation of different feeds
• Fermentation of different feed constituents
• Combining feeds together
• Controlling acidity in the rumen
• What is a concentrate?
• Consequences of acidity in the rumen
• Changing from fibrous to concentrate feeds or vice versa
• How to achieve the maximum digestion of different feeds

SECTION THREE: Feed Intake

• Concentrates
• Roughages
• Feed potential
• Animal factors

SECTION FOUR: Energy requirements

• Maintenance
• Lactation
• Energy values of feeds
• Meeting requirements
• Inaccuracies

SECTION FIVE: Protein requirements

• Methods of assessing requirements
• Microbial requirements
• Animal requirements
• Consequences of protein deficiency
• Determining the protein value of feeds

SECTION SIX: Minerals and Vitamins

• Minerals
• Vitamins

SECTION SEVEN: Preparing and processing feeds

• Hay
• Silage
• Roots
• Straw
• Physical processing of roughages
• Upgrading straw
• Cereals

SECTION EIGHT: Preserving feeds

• Grain
• Forages

SECTION NINE: Sheep

• Artificial rearing of lambs
• Rearing early weaned lambs
• Early lamb production
• Late lamb production
• Intensive lamb production
• Lowland ewes
• Hill ewes

SECTION TEN: Beef cattle

• Intensive beef production
• Store cattle
• Suckler cows

SECTION ELEVEN: Dairy cows

• Nutrition at calving
• Leaf feeding
• Complete diet feeding
• Flat rate feeding
• Out-of-parlour feeders
• Type of concentrate