Product Description

The tenth edition of this essential reference presents new knowledge about the nutritional needs of swine that consider such factors as growth rate, carcass leanness, gender, health, environment, and repartitioning agents. New sections are presented on requirements for amino acids and other nutrients. In addition, an original modeling approach to arriving at energy and amino acid needs for given animals is incorporated in this revision. The book comes with a CD-ROM that allows users to create tables of nutrient requirements for swine of a specific body weight and level of productivity. "Nutrient Requirements of Swine" covers: biological concepts that underlie nutrient needs for growth and function; new data on amino acid and energy requirements and the factors that shape them; new findings on lysine and the bioavailability of amino acids; new research results on minerals and vitamins; nutrient composition of an expanded list of feedstuffs; the role of water in swine physiology, including factors that affect the quality of drinking water; expanded tables of feed ingredients and their nutrient composition provide bioavailability estimates, fatty acid composition of fats typically used in swine diets; and, important information on estimating the amino acid content of crude protein.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1161510 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

About the Author
Subcommittee on Swine Nutrition, Committee on Animal Nutrition, National Research Council

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for informed swine producers
This edition of the Nutrient Requirements of Swine is an excellent resource for swine producers or feed manufacturers with some knowledge of swine nutrition. The edition in question provides excellent tables on nutritional requirements for all classes of swine and also provides some of the best tables available that describe the nutritional composition and quality of common feedstuffs used in swine feeds. A word of advice, however; it would be well advised for a person interested in this title to have at least a background in the nutrition of pigs. If the reader does not, then the information contained within will read much like Gray's Anatomy.