Publisher's Synopsis
In diary cattle, two major problems are fertility and lameness. Nutrition has been implicated in both of these disorders and two papers review the evidence for nutritional effects whilst also remembering the importance of alternative influences. Other papers consider the manipulation of milk fat to meet the market demands and the value of physical structure in the diet of dairy cows. Dietary fibre is the main theme of papers on pig nutrition and three papers discuss the role of fibre in diet for piglets, growing pigs and sows. Fibre can have major effects on nutrient-environment interactions and how these can be used to predict performance in growing pigs. The remaining topics in this book are legislation, horse nutrition, phytase and the nutrition of broiler-breeders.
