Voluntary food intake and diet selection of farm animals /

This book contains an up to date and more focused examination of developments in the understanding of voluntary food intake and new ideas and studies related to diet selection. New chapters are introduced and old ones are rewritten and reorganized in a more readable style by using extensive referenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forbes, J. M. (John Michael), 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford : CABI, ©2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Animal nutrition.
Food preferences.
Ingestion > Regulation.
Préférences alimentaires.
Ingestion > Régulation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
Animal nutrition
Food preferences
Ingestion > Regulation
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Feeding behaviour
  • Feedbacks from the gastrointestinal tract
  • Metabolites and hormones
  • Central nervous system and the special senses
  • Learning about food; conditioned preferences and aversions
  • Diet selection
  • principles
  • Diet selection
  • practicalities
  • Integrative theories of food intake control
  • Minimal total discomfort
  • Diet digestibility, energy concentration and supplementation of forages
  • Protein and other nutrients
  • Appetites for specific nutrients
  • Silage
  • Growth and fattening
  • Reproduction and lactation
  • Environmental factors affecting intake.

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