Recent Developments In Non-Ruminant Nutrition

The chapters within this book have all been published previously in 'Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition'. These texts are the proceedings of the annual University of Nottingham Feed Conference.

Contents

• Preface
• Amino acid digestibility in formulation of diets for pigs: present interest and limitations, future prospects
• Gut health and immunity in young piglets
• Post weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in pigs
• Nutritional influences of lifetime performance of the sow
• Formulating feeds for sows - feeding gestating sows with high fibre diets
• Fatty acids and reproduction in the pig
• Early nutrition in young poultry
• Phytase in poultry nutrition
• Exogenous enzymes as pro-nutrients in broiler diets
• Microbial phytase in broiler nutrition
• High-energy diets for poultry - effects of diet composition on performance and carcass quality
• The practical relevance of the kinetics of starch digestion in broilers
• Putting poultry nutrition into practice: experience from the field
• Natural pigments: practical experience
• Nutrient requirements for grazing horses: development of an optimal pasture supplement
• Speciality diets for horses
• Equine nutrition: some unique features, functions and frailties of the digestive system of the horse
• Companion animal nutrition
• Interactions between the immune system, nutrition and productivity of animals
• Nutrition and immunity in farm animals
• Bacteriological aspects of the use of antibiotics and their alternatives in the feed of non-ruminant animals
• Tracing modes of action and the roles of plant extracts in non-ruminants
• The effect of commercial-scale processing on the degree of DNA fragmentation in animal feeds
• Feed composition and environmental pollution
• Index