This contemporary and authoritative survey provides comprehensive coverage of the nutritional and scientific feeding of beef cattle, dairy cattle, poultry, horses, sheep and swine, and offers a detailed treatment of feed composition for use in ration formulation. Topics covered include principles of animal nutrition and physiology, feed stuffs, and livestock and poultry feeding. For those in Animal Nutrition fields.

The feed manufacturing business; Composition and digestibility of feedstuffs; Nutrients, their uses and deficiencies; Effect of processing on feed quality; Effect of storage on nutritional value; Beef cattle formulations; Dairy cattle formulations; Horse formulations; Poultry formulations; Sheep formulations; Swine formulations; Dog formulations; Utilization of a ration; Variation in feed ingredients; How to make a feed formula; Selection of feeds for formulas; Classification of feedstuffs; Costs of procuring, manufacturing and distributing mixed feeds; Microingredients and premixes; Linear programming; Special points to feed manufacturers; Cautions to feed manufacturers; Feed standards and the feed control service.

Animal Life-Cycle Feeding and Nutrition reviews developments in feeding and nutrition throughout an animal's life cycle and covers a wide range of topics, from utilization of nutrients such as carbohydrates and proteins to nutrient digestion by ruminants, swine, poultry, and horses. Feedstuffs such as pasture and harvested forages, protein concentrates, and cereal and sorghum grains are also discussed. Comprised of 21 chapters, this book begins with a discussion on nutrients and their utilization, including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and minerals and vitamins. Nutrient digestion by ruminants, swine, poultry, and horses are then compared and feedstuffs for livestock are evaluated. The next section deals with feedstuffs such as pasture and harvested forages, protein concentrates, and cereal and sorghum grains, together with molasses, manure, and other miscellaneous feed ingredients. The remaining chapters explore the effect of processing on the nutrient value of feedstuffs; balancing of rations; and feeding of animals including swine, beef and dairy cattle, poultry, sheep, horses, dogs, and goats. This monograph is designed for students of animal sciences, for veterinary students as well as doctors of veterinary medicine, and for practitioners of livestock feeding.

This book provides a strong, hands-on foundation in the basic principles of animal nutrition that is easy to understand. This contemporary and authoritative survey provides comprehensive coverage of the nutritional and scientific feeding of beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, sheep and swine, and offers a detailed treatment of feed composition for use in ration formulation.