Animal Nutrition

Your Comprehensive Guide to Animal Nutrition

This book is a thoroughly updated new edition of a classic, market-leading text, providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the science and practice of animal nutrition. It is a trusted resource supported by key experimental evidence throughout, covering modern advancements in animal food nourishment, composition of foods, and feeding standards for a vast array of domestic species.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Structure: The book is split into six main sections, covering The components of food; The digestion and metabolism of nutrients; Quantifying the nutrient content of digestibility, energy, and protein values; The nutrient requirements of animals; The nutritional characteristics of foods; and Animal products and human nutrition.
• Expanded Species Coverage: It covers feeding standards for dairy and beef cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry, horses, and has expanded coverage for cats and dogs.
• Modern Topics: New sections include nutritional topics related to molecular biology, the environment, and the usage of novel foods such as insects for animal feeding.
• Quantitative Learning: Quantitative aspects of the subject are clearly explained and illustrated by worked examples. Problems have been added to all chapters, and the appendices include solutions to all chapter-end numeric questions.
• Study Aids: Chapter-end summaries and questions allow students to recap and test their knowledge of the chapter topic.
• Broad Audience: This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Biology, and Biochemistry.