Recent Advances In Animal Nutrition - 2007

This book is essential reading for all involved in animal production science/practice, including researchers, consultants, animal science students, legislators and practitioners.

The ruminant section contains chapters on nutritional effects on milk yield, health and reproductive efficiency. The first two chapters look at nutrition and management factors affecting fertility; the third chapter provides a scientific approach to feeding cows during the dry period; two chapters then discuss the impacts of nutrition and environmental management on lameness; the sixth paper outlines control measures for scrapie and blue tongue disease; and the seventh paper discusses plant extracts with potential as antimicrobial manipulators of rumen fermentation for productivity and health benefits.

Two important issues for animal agriculture are globalisation and environmental impact. One chapter describes the rapid growth in Indian livestock production and its implications for World markets; another uses life cycle analysis to estimate the environmental burdens of animal production systems.

Raw material issues are considered in four chapters looking at co-products from biodiesel production (glycerol and rapeseed meal), mycotoxin contamination of feeds, challenges of supplying organic feeds, and variability in feedstuff composition.

The non-ruminant section contains chapters on water supply in pig and poultry operations, nutrition of outdoor pigs, salmonella control on pig farms, perinatal mortality of piglets, and compensatory growth in pigs.

All chapters are written by international experts in their fields and provide comprehensive analyses of the issues alongside practical applications. This book is essential reading for all involved in animal production science and practice, including researchers, consultants, animal science students, legislators and practitioners.

Contents:

• Influences of transition cow nutrition on health and reproduction of dairy cows
• Nutritional and management factors affecting reproductive efficiency in US dairy herds
• A scientific approach to feeding dry cows
• Lameness in dairy cows: impact of practical nutritional and environmental management
• Lameness in dairy cows: influence of nutrition on claw composition and health
• TSEs and Bluetongue - where are we now?
• Plant extracts as antimicrobials in ruminants
• Indian animal production: implications for the UK livestock industry
• Environmental burdens of livestock production systems derived from life cycle assessment
• Co-products from biodiesel production
• Mycotoxins in animal feed: is there really a problem?
• Organic farming: challenges for farmers and feed suppliers
• How does variability in feedstuff composition affect the decisions we make in formulating rations?
• Water measurement in pig and poultry production
• Nutritional approaches to reducing the environmental impact of outdoor pigs
• Salmonella: a pig producer's perspective
• Supplements to facilitate parturition and reduce perinatal mortality in pigs
• Compensatory growth in pigs
• Index