Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B: Livestock Feeds and Feeding

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• Feeds

  - additives (probiotics, antibiotics, enzymes and other digestion enhancers flavours, colours, drugs, medicinal plants)

  - byproducts (agricultural and agroindustrial wastes and residues, manufacturing wastes)

  - concentrates (cereals, legumes, compound feeds)

  - contaminants (chemical, mycotoxins, microorganisms, drug and pesticide residues)

  - live aquaculture feeds

  - production and nutritive value of forage species

Feeding

• Feeding of:
• - companion animals
• - captive animals and all other species of importance to man
• • • - farmed livestock (cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, game animals and birds, rabbits, furbearing animals, fish and aquacultural species)
    - sport animals

Methods

• • - chemical analysis of nutrients and contaminants in fodder plants and feeds and nutrients and metabolites in animal tissues and fluids.
  - methods of feed evaluation

Nutritional disorders and diet treatment

• • - excesses and imbalances
  - nutrient deficiencies
• • - poisoning
  • - treatment of any condition through the diet
  - toxicity
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• • Physiological methods of:   

  • • - cannulation
    • - calorimetry
    - estimation of digestibility
  • - excreta collection
  • • • - experimental design
      - feed intake
    - feeding behaviour
  • - metabolism
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  Physiology and biochemistry

  • - digestion
  • • - endocrinology in relation to metabolism
    • - immunity in relation to nutrition
    • - metabolism of energy and nutrients
    • - minerals
    • - reproduction in relation to nutritional state
    - tissues and body fluids
  • - vitamins
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  Technology

  • • - compounding and the equipment used in these processes
    - feed production and conservation
  • - physical and chemical processing
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  Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B is also available in print as a monthly journal, with author, subject and serials cited indexes.

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