Animal nutrition science /
Gordon McL. Dryden.
- Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2008.
- xi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to Nutritional Ecology -- The Nutritive Value of Animal Foods: Introductory concepts about Foods, Nutrients and Food Analysis -- Methods of Evaluating the availability of Nutrients in Foods -- The Physico-Chemical Composition and Digestibility of Foods -- The Nutritive Value of Animal Foods -- Secondary Substances in Concentrates and Roughages -- Digestion and the Supply of Nutrients -- Water use and Requirements -- Minerals: Their Functions and Animal Requirements -- Vitamins -- Voluntary Food Intake -- Quantitative Nutrition: Requirements for Maintenance and Production -- Ration Formulation -- Nutritional Investigations: Measures for Nutritional Status -- Nutrition and the Environment -- Nutritional Genomics -- Stockfood Processing: Methods and Animal Responses -- Feedmill Design and Management: An Introduction.
"Animal Nutrition Science introduces the fundamental topics of animal nutrition, in a treatment which deals with terrestrial animals in general. The subjects covered include nutritional ecology and the evolution of feeding styles, nutrients (including minerals, vitamins and water) and their functions, food composition and methods of evaluating foods, mammalian and microbial digestion and the supply of nutrients, control and prediction of food intake, quantitative nutrition and ration formulation, methods of investigating nutritional problems, nutritional genomics, nutrition and the environment, and methods of feed processing and animal responses to processed foods."--Publisher's description.