Nutritional and Digestive Disorders Of Poultry

S M Shane (2006)

This text has been prepared to guide veterinarians, laboratory diagnosticians, nutritionists and students in their professional activities relating to diseases, parasites and malfunction of the digestive tract of commercial poultry. The interrelationship of intrinsic and environmental factors in the context of intensive production systems requires an appreciation of the multifactorial etiology resulting in dysfunction.

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ISBN 978-1-904761-35-8
Price £19.99
Publisher Nottingham University Press
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A systematic approach to evaluating production records, clinical signs, lesions, and laboratory investigations is stressed through adoption of a common format for the conditions reviewed.

Contents

  • The digestive tract
  • Feed consumption and digestion
  • Immunity
  • Practical nutrition of commercial poultry
  • Technical feed ingredients and supplements
  • Nutrient deficiencies
  • Feed quality and disease interactions
  • Abnormal conditions
  • Infections of the digestive system: strategies to prevent disease in flocks
  • Applied immunology and the control of disease
  • Digestive diseases in poultry
  • Diseases of public health significance
  • Economics applied to poultry production
  • Index

With contributions by Lucy A Tucker