Animal Nutrition : Advances and Developments

Contents: Preface. 1. Concept and application of mixed farming systems in India/S.P. Tiwari, Kiran Kumari and Usha R. Mehra. 2. Recent trends in protein nutrition/S.P. Tiwari, Raina Pathak and Usha R. Mehra. 3. Energy metabolism of ruminants/J.C. Macrae. 4. Calorimetric Technique/J.M. Brockway. 5. Feeding and nutrient requirements of ruminants/D.V. Reddy. 6. Feeding and Nutrition of Swine/N.N. Pathak. 7. Precision animal nutrition for pigs: A tool for economic and Eco-friendly animal production/D.V. Reddy. 8. Feeding and nutrition of sheep and goat in tropics/Tribhuwan Sharma. 9. Feeds and feeding of domesticated equine species/N.N. Pathak. 10. Nutrition and feeding of pet animals/A.K. Pattanaik. 11. Advanced poultry nutrition and feeding/A.B. Mandal. 12. Feeding and nutrition of Yak/K.K. Baruah, N.N. Pathak and N. Haque. 13. Feeding and nutrition of mithun/N.Haque, Saroj Toppo, H. Rahman and K.K. Baruah. 14. Feeding and nutrition of wild animals in captivity/Asit Das, M. Saini and D. Swarup. 15. Feeding and nutrition of animals at high altitude/A. Sahoo. 16. Mineral nutrition of ruminants in tropics: Problems and remedies/C.S. Prasad, N.K.S. Gowda and D.T. Pal. 17. Impact of heavy and toxic metals on Livestock health and production/R.S. Dass. 18. Fat soluble vitamins/R.R. Shukla and U.,K. Mishra. 19. Nutrition and feeding aspects using lingo-cellulosic materials as animal feed/Usha R. Mehra and K.Y. Deshpande. 20. Strategic supplementation of nutrients to optimize livestock production/Putan Singh, A.K. Verma and Ani Bency Jacob. 21. Improvement of feed resources and livestock feeding in mixed cropping systems/M. Blummel, S. Anandan, I.A. Wright. 22. Prospects of feed from genetically modified plants in livestock feeding/Gerhard Flachowsky. 23. Application of biotechnology to improve the nutritive value of low-grade roughages in ruminants/J.P. Sehgal and Jayant Lohakare. 24. Nutrigenomics and livestock productivity/Anamika Mishra and Ashwini Raut. 25. Feeding rumen protected fat to high yielding dairy cows/Prafulla Kumar Naik. 26. Feeding behaviour of domestic animals/Gyanendra Singh and B.C. Das. 27. Quality assurance for livestock production/S.K. Ranjhan. 28. Assessing quality and safety of animal feeds/D. Nagalakshmi and S.V. Rama Rao. 29. Utilization of agro-industrial by-Products for feeding dairy animals/K.K. Singhal. 30. Anti-Nutritional factors in livestock feeds: Prospects and challenges/A.K. Srivastava and S.K. Sirohi. 31. Nutrition – Parasite interaction and animal productivity/P.S. Banerjee, O.K. Raina and S.C. Gupta. 32. The use of purine derivatives to determine microbial protein in ruminants/A.K. Verma and E.R. Orskov. 33. Global warming due to methane emission by livestock and its mitigation strategies/D.N. Kamra and A.K. Patra. 34. Recent advances in feed evaluation/Narayan Dutta and M.K. Tripathi. 35. Herbal feed additives – Role in animal nutrition/M.P.S. Bakshi and M. Wadhwa. 36. Niutrition and Immunity/K.K. Mishra, K.Y. Deshpande and S.K. Mishra. 37. Protected proteins and Amino Acids in ruminants/K.T. Sampath, M. Chandrasekharaiah and A. Thulasi. 38. Environmental issues in livestock rearing and policies/S.P. Tiwari, Usha R. Mehra, S. Swamkar and S. Nanda. 39. Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics feeding in ruminants/Neeta Agarwal.

The rapid changes in the scientific know how of the science of animal nutrition have taken place in last two decades. There is a much felt need for a text book of advanced animal nutrition for students form Asian and other developing countries. This book is written in a very simple illustrative and coherent manner with all updated information so that students, scientists/researchers and academicians, at national and international level will be benefited.

This book is the result of a multi-author effort. The contributors were invited at national as well as international level for their expertise as topics and professional involvement.

This book attempts at providing a clear, thorough and up-dated information fundamentals to animal nutrition, as well as its application, each topic is discussed form a multidisciplinary angle to aid and assist understanding, and not merely as a routine to fulfill the requirement of syllabi. Many chapters are devoted to special topics in changing scenario of animal nutrition, some recent topics like global warming due to methane emission by livestock, environmental issues in livestock rearing and polices, quality assurance for livestock production and prospects of feed from generically modified plants in livestock feeding etc. have been introduced. In editors opinion this book will be extremely useful to all persons at national and international level who are directly involved with the science of animal nutrition.