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Description
This comprehensive work provides a review of the current state of knowledge on all aspects of sheep nutrition. The main emphasis is on sheep grazing in systems that range from intensively utilised sown pastures to extensive rangelands.
These 16 chapters, contributed by experts from around the world, place their respective facets of sheep nutrition in the context of the nutritional challenges faced by the grazing sheep. These are not just academic issues, but issues of major economic importance.
It will be an invaluable reference for postgraduate and undergraduate students in animal science, animal science researchers and sheep producers.
Features
- World-wide specialist contributors
- Chapters on nutritive quality, feed choice and rumen ecology
- Covers nutrition for conception, pregnancy and lactation
- Chapters on nutrition for wool growth and meat production
Contents
- Nutritive Value of Herbage
S W Coleman, USDA-ARS, USA and D A Henry, CSIRO, Australia
- Constraints on Feed Intake by Grazing Sheep
R H Weston, Glenbrook, Australia
- Food Choice
J M Forbes, University of Leeds, UK and R W Mayes, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK
- Microbial Ecology of the Ovine Rumen
R I Mackie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, C S McSweeney, CSIRO Australia and A V Klieve, Animal Research Institute, Australia
- Digestion and Metabolism
E F Annison, University of Sydney, Australia, D B Lindsay, Cambridge, UK and J V Nolan, University of New England, Australia
- Principles of Supplementary Feeding in Sheep-grazing Systems
H Dove, CSIRO Australia
- Nutrition for Maintenance
J L Corbett and A J Ball, University of New England, Australia
- Nutrition and Wool Growth
P L Hynd, Adelaide University, Australia and D G Masters, CSIRO, Australia
- Nutrition for Conception and Pregnancy
J J Robinson, J A Rooke and T G McEvoy, Scottish Agricultural College, UK
- Nutrition during Lactation
T T Treacher, Oxford, UK and G Caja, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Nutrition for Sheep-meat Production
H Oddy, Meat and Livestock Australia, Australia and R D Sainz, University of California, USA
- Nutrition of Sheep under Rangelands Conditions
P J O'Reagain, Queensland Beef Industry Institute, Australia and N P McMeniman, University of Queensland, Australia
- Trace-element and Vitamin Nutrition of Grazing Sheep
J Lee, S O Knowles, AgResearch Limited, New Zealand and G J Judson, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Australia
- Interactions between Gastrointestinal Parasites and Nutrients
R L Coop, Moredun Research Institute, UK and A R Sykes, Lincoln University, New Zealand
- Deleterious Substances in Grazed Pastures
G C Waghorn, AgResearch Limited, New Zealand, N R Adams, CSIRO, Australia and D R Woodfield, AgResearch Limited, New Zealand
- The Nutritional Management of Grazing Sheep
M Freer, CSIRO Australia
Reviews
"At a time when sheep productivity in most major sheep-raising countries has advanced significantly through increases in overall lambing performances, this book will be of inestimable value. . ."Sheep nutrition" is an excellent and modern text and I am sure will be of use to all students of animal science, researchers, veterinarians, farmers, and graziers."
A N Bruere, Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Massey University, New Zealand (New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research v.47, 2004)
Readership
Graduate and undergraduate students in animal science or agricultural science, research workers and consultants in animal science, and farmers and graziers.
Related Titles
Nutrient Requirements of Domesticated Ruminants
Feedlotting Lambs - A Producer's Guide
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