Sheep nutrition / edited by M. Freer and H. Dove, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with CSIRO Publishing, 2002Copyright date: 2002Description: 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- Sheep -- Nutrition
- Sheep -- Feeding and feeds
- Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000)
- Animal Nutrition (General)
- Sheep
- Animal husbandry
- Feed intake
- Feed supplements
- Grazing
- Herbage
- Lactation
- Microbial flora
- Mineral nutrition
- Nutrition
- Nutritive value
- Pastures
- Pregnancy
- Reference works
- Rumen
- Sheepmeat
- Vitamin supplements
- LL180
- LL500
- 636.30852 23
- SF376 .S555 2002eb
The principles of nutrition and nutritional management of grazing sheep are discussed in terms of feeding for maintenance, during conception and pregnancy, during lactation, for sheepmeat production, and for sheep under rangeland conditions. The book elaborates on the nutritive value of herbage, deleterious substances in grazed pastures, food preferences, constraints on feed intake, principles of supplementary feeding as well as trace element and vitamin nutrition under sheep-grazing systems. Microbial ecology of the ovine rumen, digestion and metabolism, and interactions between gastrointestinal parasites and nutrients are also discussed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nutritive Value of Herbage / S.W. Coleman and D.A. Henry -- Constraints on Feed Intake by Grazing Sheep / R.H. Weston -- Food Choice / J.M. Forbes and R.W. Mayes -- Microbial Ecology of the Ovine Rumen / R.I. Mackie, C.S. McSweeney and A.V. Klieve -- Digestion and Metabolism / E.F. Annison, D.B. Lindsay and J.V. Nolan -- Principles of Supplementary Feeding in Sheep-grazing Systems / H. Dove -- Nutrition for Maintenance / J.L. Corbett and A.J. Ball -- Nutrition and Wool Growth / P.I. Hynd and D.G. Masters -- Nutrition for Conception and Pregnancy / J.J. Robinson, J.A. Rooke and T.G. McEvoy -- Nutrition during Lactation / T.T. Treacher and G. Caja -- Nutrition for Sheep-meat Production / V.H. Oddy and R.D. Sainz -- Nutrition of Sheep under Rangeland Conditions / P.J. O'Reagain and N.P. McMeniman -- Trace-element and Vitamin Nutrition of Grazing Sheep / J. Lee, S.O. Knowles and G.J. Judson -- Interactions between Gastrointestinal Parasites and Nutrients / R.L. Coop and A.R. Sykes -- Deleterious Substances in Grazed Pastures / G.C. Waghorn, N.R. Adams and D.R. Woodfield -- The Nutritional Management of Grazing Sheep / M. Freer.
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