Voluntary food intake and diet selection in farm animals
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire :
CABI ,
c2007
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Feeding behaviour
- 3. Feedbacks from the gastrointestinal tract
- 4. Metabolites and hormones
- 5. Central nervous system and the special senses
- 6. Learning about food; conditioned preferences and aversions
- 7. Diet selection : principles
- 8. Diet selection : practicalities
- 9. Integrative theories of food intake control
- 10. Minimal total discomfort
- 11. Diet digestibility, energy concentration and supplementation of forages
- 12. Protein and other nutrients
- 13. Appetites for specific nutrients
- 14. Silage
- 15. Growth and fattening
- 16. Reproduction and lactation
- 17. Environmental factors affecting intake
- 18. Epilogue