Feeding Systems and Feed Evaluation Models

Feeding Systems and Feed Evaluation Models
Author: Mike K. Theodorou
Publisher: Cabi
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Feed evaluation for animal production. Feed characterization. Intake, passage and digestibility. In vitro and in situ methods for estimating digestibility with reference to protein degradability. Measurement of energy metabolism. Feeding systems for dairy cows. Feeding systems for beef cattle. Feeding systems for sheep. Feding systems for pigs. Feeding systems for poultry. Feeding systems for horse. Feeding systems for pigs. Feeding systems for poultry. Feeding systems for horse. Prediction of response to nutrients by ruminants through mathematical modelling and improved feed characterizaion. Analyses of modelling whole-rumen function. Modelling the lactating dairy cow. Modelling growth and wool production in ruminats.Modelling growth and lactation in pigs. Modelling the utilization of dietary energy and amino acids by poultry. Modelling growth in fish. The nutrition of companion animals.

NorFor -

NorFor -
Author: Harald Volden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9086867189

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 analysis and feed digestion methods. The second section describes the digestion and metabolism in the gastrointestinal tract and the supply and requirement of energy and metabolizable amino acids. The third section considers the prediction of feed intake and physical structure of the diet. The fourth section focuses on model evaluation and the final section provides information on the IT solutions and feed ration formulation by a non-linear economical optimization procedure. This book will be of significant interest to researchers, students and advisors of cattle nutrition and feed evaluation.

INRA feeding system for ruminants

INRA feeding system for ruminants
Author: INRA
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2023-11-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 908686872X

The INRA Feeding System for Ruminants has been renewed to better address emerging challenges for animal nutrition: prevision of productive responses, product quality, animal health and emissions to the environment, in a larger extent of breeding contexts. The new system is mainly built from meta-analyses of large data bases, and modelling. The dietary supply model accounts for digestive interactions and flows of individual nutrients, so that feed values depend on the final ration. Animal requirements account for variability in metabolic efficiency. Various productive and non-productive animal responses to diets are quantified. This book presents the whole system for dairy and meat, large and small ruminant production, including specificities for tropical and Mediterranean areas. The first two sections present biological concepts and equations (with their field of application and statistical accuracy) used to predict intake (including at grazing) and nutrient supply (Section 1), animal’s requirements and multiple responses to diets (Section 2). They apply to net energy, metabolisable protein and amino acids, water, minerals and vitamins. Section 3 presents the use of concepts and equations in rationing with two purposes: (1) diet calculation for a given performance objective; and (2) prediction of the multiple responses of animal to diet changes. Section 4 displays the tables of feed values, and their prevision. All the equations and concepts are embedded in the fifth version of INRAtion® software for practical use.

Feed Evaluation

Feed Evaluation
Author: P. O. Osuji
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Animal nutrition
ISBN: 9789290532781

Feed Evaluation

Feed Evaluation
Author: Paul J. Moughan
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Overview of determinants of the nutritional value of feed ingredients; Principles of chemical analysis; Developments in the determination of protein and amino acids; Developments in the measurement of the energy content of feeds and energy utilisation animals; Characterisation of the non-starch polysaccharides; Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy and related technologies for the analysis of feed ingredients; Amino acids - the collection of ileal digesta and characterisation of the endogenous component; Amino acids: digestibility, availability and metabolism; Bioavailability: the energy component of a ration for monogastric animals; In vitro digestibility methods: history and specific approaches; The significance of antinutritional factors in feedstuffs for monogastric animals; Amino acid and energy requirements; Principles behind feed formulation; Advances in feed evaluation for pigs; Advances in feed evaluation for poultry; Advances in fed evaluation for companion animals.

Mathematical Modelling in Animal Nutrition

Mathematical Modelling in Animal Nutrition
Author: J. France
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2008
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845933540

The primary purpose of each of the subsequent chapters of this book is to promulgate quantitative approaches concerned with elucidating mechanisms in a particular area of the nutrition of ruminants, pigs, poultry, fish or pets. Given the diverse scientific backgrounds of the contributors of each chapter (the chapters in the book are arranged according to subject area), the imposition of a rigid format for presenting mathematical material has been eschewed, though basic mathematical conventions are adhered to.

In Vitro Digestibility in Animal Nutritional Studies

In Vitro Digestibility in Animal Nutritional Studies
Author: Pier Giorgio Peiretti
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039364596

This book addresses various aspects of in vitro digestibility: • Application of meta-analyses and machine learning methods to predict methane production; • Methane production of sainfoin and alfalfa; • In vitro evaluation of different dietary methane mitigation strategies; • Rumen methanogenesis, rumen fermentation, and microbial community response; • The role of condensed tannins in the in vitro rumen fermentation kinetics; • Fermentation pattern of several carbohydrate sources; • Additive, synergistic, or antagonistic effects of plant extracts; • In vitro rumen degradation and fermentation characteristics of silage and hay; • In vitro digestibility, in situ degradability, and rumen fermentation of camelina co-products; • Ruminal fermentation parameters and microbial matters to odd- and branched-chain fatty acids; • Comparison of fecal versus rumen inocula for the estimation of NDF digestibility; • Rumen inoculum collected from cows at slaughter or from a continuous fermenter; • Seaweeds as ingredients of ruminant diets; • Rumen in vitro fermentation and in situ degradation kinetics of forage Brassica crops; • In vitro digestibility and rumen degradability of vetch varieties; • Intestinal digestibility in vitro of Vicia sativa varieties; • Ruminal in vitro protein degradation and apparent digestibility of Pisum sativum; • In vitro digestibility studies using equine fecal inoculum; • Effects of gas production recording system and pig fecal inoculum volume on kinetics; • In vitro methods of assessing protein quality for poultry; and • In vitro techniques using the DaisyII incubator.

Feed efficiency in swine

Feed efficiency in swine
Author: John F. Patience
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9086867561

'Feed efficiency in swine' 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. Each chapter is written by international authorities who understand both the science and application of their topic area. The book provides detailed insight into the many factors affecting feed efficiency, ranging from diet processing to herd health, from nutrition to physiology and from day-to-day barn management to the adoption of advanced technologies. The authors explain such practical aspects as the challenge of interpreting feed efficiency information obtained on farm or the role of liquid feeding. The authors also delve into more scientific topics such as amino acid or energy metabolism or animal physiology. This book is written for people who have a technical interest in pork production, including nutritionists, geneticists, farm management specialists, veterinarians, other academics and, of course, pork producers.

Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences

Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 4072
Release: 2011-03-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0123744075

Dairy Science, Four Volume Set includes the study of milk and milk-derived food products, examining the biological, chemical, physical, and microbiological aspects of milk itself as well as the technological (processing) aspects of the transformation of milk into its various consumer products, including beverages, fermented products, concentrated and dried products, butter and ice cream. This new edition includes information on the possible impact of genetic modification of dairy animals, safety concerns of raw milk and raw milk products, peptides in milk, dairy-based allergies, packaging and shelf-life and other topics of importance and interest to those in dairy research and industry. Fully reviewed, revised and updated with the latest developments in Dairy Science Full color inserts in each volume illustrate key concepts Extended index for easily locating information

Principles of Cattle Production, 3rd Edition

Principles of Cattle Production, 3rd Edition
Author: Clive J C Phillips
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-11-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1786392704

Completely updated and revised, this new edition continues to provide an introductory level text for all interested in beef and dairy cattle production systems. It presents a vision for a cattle industry that contributes to the environment, to the welfare of cattle and to the provision of safe and high quality food.