Total Nutrition - Feeding Animals for Health and Growth
Total Nutrition - Feeding Animals for Health and Growth
Author(s): Clifford A AdamsThis book outlines the concept of 'Total Nutrition' - the careful control of nutrient levels in feeds and bio-active components known as nutricines - that can achieve good health and growth performance in animals.
Total Nutrition is the strategic use of a wide variety of disease avoidance and health maintenance measures which will contribute to an improved and more acceptable system of animal production, without the use of antibiotics. This volume considers the practical implications and implementation of the principles and theories laid out in Nutricines - Adams' highly successful first book.
In many countries there is now great resistance to the widespread use of antibiotic growth promoters and of other pharmaceutical products in raising animals for food. Unfortunately, there is frequently little appreciation by the population at large and by the media of the challenges this poses to the production of large volumes of low cost food of animal origin.
The concept of 'Total Nutrition', outlined here, may help to meet these challenges where health maintenance, disease avoidance and general nutrition are seen as requirements of animal diets today. This requires the consideration of both the nutrient levels of feeds and of the other bioactive components, known as nutricines. Initial results suggest that by judicious use of a range of nutricines, it will be possible to achieve both good health status of animals and good growth performance using feed formulations and ingredients that satisfy modern legislative and consumer demands.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Extent: 244 pp.
ISBN: 1-897676-94-8
- Problems of perception: animal production, food safety and public health
- Virtues of cleanliness: feed quality and hygiene
- Eating to live: voluntary feed intake
- Raw material processing: digestion and absorption of nutrients
- Struggle for supremacy: management of the gastrointestinal tract
- External enemies: immune system and defence in a dangerous world
- The enemy within: non-infectious diseases and oxidative stress
- Monitoring performance: assessment of total nutrition and feeding standards
- Difficult demands: safe food, low cost, ethical issues, environmental impact
- Index
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