Nutrition and Feeding of Poultry

Authors: From Larbier and Leclercq's: Nutrition et Alimentation des Volailles Translated and edited by J Wiseman
This comprehensive work is both a scientific synthesis and practical manual. Students will find discussions of physiological functions based on nutrition, as well as the principal mechanisms of metabolic control. Practitioners will have important information available, allowing them to formulate diets or make decisions based on the management of the unit. To improve understanding of the text, extensive use has been made of diagrams, figures and tables of data.

Availability: In Print
Publication date:1994
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 305 pp.
ISBN: 1-897676-52-2

Book Contents

Scientific progress and economic development
Intake of food and water
Digestive physiology
Energy metabolism
Protein metabolism
Metabolism of water and minerals
Physiological and nutritional role of vitamins
Feeding growing birds
The egg and feeding the laying hen
Feeding breeders
Raw material employed in poultry production
Processing of diets and nutritional consequence
Modelling of requirements and diet formulation
Index