This is an up-to-date revision of the most comprehensive text on animal nutrition and feeding, with new and expanded coverage of virtually all metabolic processes. Material new to the third edition includes coverage of proteins, effects of calcium deficiency, growth regulation, additives, indicator methods, and cost formulation in animal production. Chapters address common methods of analysis for nutrients and feedstuffs, measurement of feed and nutrient utilization and requirements by animals, energy metabolism, feeding standards and production functions, factors affecting feed consumption, diet formulation, and much more.
- ISBN10 0471637734
- ISBN13 9780471637738
- Publish Date 27 April 1988 (first published November 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 January 1996
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint John Wiley and Sons (WIE)
- Edition International 2 Revised ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English