Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nutritional energetics of domestic animals and glossary of energy
  • Terms
  • Introduction
  • Units of measurement
  • Biological basis of energy partition
  • Definition of terms
  • Conventional scheme
  • Relationship of environmental temperature to energy metabolism
  • Systems used to express feed energy values and an animal's requirement for energy
  • Application to growing ruminants
  • Application to lactating ruminants
  • Application to nonruminant herbivores, especially horses and rabbits
  • Application to swine
  • Application to poultry
  • Application to aquatic animals.