title: Bioavailability of Nutrients for Animals: Amino Acids, Minerals, Vitamins
author: Clarence B. Ammerman
description: This practical book provides crucial information necessary to formulate diets with appropriate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and vitamins. The factors that influence how well animals obtain these critical nutrients and methods for determining bioavailability are reviewed in this comprehensive text. In addition, data from both ruminants and nonruminants are included as well as established estimates of bioavailability for particular feed stuffs and feed supplements.
zlib_text: Principles of Animal Nutrition
  
  Principles of Animal Nutrition
  Dr. S.K. Singh
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  Principles of Animal Nutrition
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  First Edition, 2017
  ISBN 978-93-5084-917-0
  PRINTED IN INDIA
  Printed at Replika Press Pvt. Ltd., Sonipat, Haryana
  
  Contents
  Preface
  1.   Introduction
  2.   Nutrition and Maintenance of Dairy
  3.   Animal Nutrition Basics
  4.   Nutrition for Optimising the Immune Response
  5.   Climate Change and Nutrition
  6.   Statistical Analysis of Data
  7.   Materials and Methods
  8.   Commercial Nutrition
  9.   Farm Animal Care
  Bibliography
  
  Preface
  A nutrient is a substance used in an organism’s metabolism. The six main groups of
  nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Nutrition is the
  series of processes, by which an animal takes i