Animal feed : types, nutrition and safety /
Sarah R. Borgearo, editor.
- 1 online resource
- Agriculture issues and policies Animal science, issues and professions .
- Agriculture issues and policies series. Animal science, issues, and professions series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brown algae as a feed additive: nutritional and health impacts on ruminant -- a review / Yuxi Wang, Tim A. McAllister -- Animal feeds and nutrition research: conventional and novel approaches / Peiqiang Yu -- Veterinary drug use and environmental safety / Sara Leston ... [and others] -- Microbiological safety and quality of animal feeding stuffs / Marijana Sokolovic -- Effects of selected feed compounds and feed additives on gastrointestinal tract functions in farm animals: health vs. productivity perspective / Violetta Naughton, Patrick J. Naughton -- Application of wavelet neural networks as a non-linear modelling technique in food microbiology / V.S. Kodogiannis ... [and others] -- The effects of natural antioxidants dietary supplementation on the properties of farm animal products / Panagiotis E. Simitzis, Stelios G. Deligeorgis -- A risk analysis of compound feed contamination / Marcel van Asseldonk, Miranda Meuwissen, Ruud Huirne -- Use of probiotics as dietary supplement in cattle goats and pigs / Romina Ross ... [and others] -- Nutritional aspects of theropithecus gelada: from wild-feeding to captive animals / Marcus Mau, Jacinta Beehner, Achim Johann -- Effect of wilting and plant types on physical and chemical composition of silage / U.Y. Anele ... [and others] -- Feed to milk: new tools for the identification of plant species / Silvia Giani ... [and others] -- A comparison study to determine the best model for computing mean/median irregular feed particle sizes of coarsely dry-rolled barley for animal nutrition research / L. Du, Peiqiang Yu.
Topics covered include: conventional and novel feed research programs; veterinary drug use and environmental safety; microbiological safety and quality of animal feeding stuffs; the effects of selected feed compounds and feed additives on the gastrointestinal tract functions in farm animals and a risk analysis of compound feed contamination.