Animal Nutrition : Advances and Developments

Contents Preface 1 Concept and application of mixed farming systems in IndiaSP Tiwari Kiran Kumari and Usha R Mehra 2 Recent trends in protein nutritionSP Tiwari Raina Pathak and Usha R Mehra 3 Energy metabolism of ruminantsJC Macrae 4 Calorimetric TechniqueJM Brockway 5 Feeding and nutrient requirements of ruminantsDV Reddy 6 Feeding and Nutrition of SwineNN Pathak 7 Precision animal nutrition for pigs A tool for economic and Eco-friendly animal productionDV Reddy 8 Feeding and nutrition of sheep and goat in tropicsTribhuwan Sharma 9 Feeds and feeding of domesticated equine speciesNN Pathak 10 Nutrition and feeding of pet animalsAK Pattanaik 11 Advanced poultry nutrition and feedingAB Mandal 12 Feeding and nutrition of YakKK Baruah NN Pathak and N Haque 13 Feeding and nutrition of mithunNHaque Saroj Toppo H Rahman and KK Baruah 14 Feeding and nutrition of wild animals in captivityAsit Das M Saini and D Swarup 15 Feeding and nutrition of animals at high altitudeA Sahoo 16 Mineral nutrition of ruminants in tropics Problems and remediesCS Prasad NKS Gowda and DT Pal 17 Impact of heavy and toxic metals on Livestock health and productionRS Dass 18 Fat soluble vitaminsRR Shukla and UK Mishra 19 Nutrition and feeding aspects using lingo-cellulosic materials as animal feedUsha R Mehra and KY Deshpande 20 Strategic supplementation of nutrients to optimize livestock productionPutan Singh AK Verma and Ani Bency Jacob 21 Improvement of feed resources and livestock feeding in mixed cropping systemsM Blummel S Anandan IA Wright 22 Prospects of feed from genetically modified plants in livestock feedingGerhard Flachowsky 23 Application of biotechnology to improve the nutritive value of low-grade roughages in ruminantsJP Sehgal and Jayant Lohakare 24 Nutrigenomics and livestock productivityAnamika Mishra and Ashwini Raut 25 Feeding rumen protected fat to high yielding dairy cowsPrafulla Kumar Naik 26 Feeding behaviour of domestic animalsGyanendra Singh and BC Das 27 Quality assurance for livestock productionSK Ranjhan 28 Assessing quality and safety of animal feedsD Nagalakshmi and SV Rama Rao 29 Utilization of agro-industrial by-Products for feeding dairy animalsKK Singhal 30 Anti-Nutritional factors in livestock feeds Prospects and challengesAK Srivastava and SK Sirohi 31 Nutrition ? Parasite interaction and animal productivityPS Banerjee OK Raina and SC Gupta 32 The use of purine derivatives to determine microbial protein in ruminantsAK Verma and ER Orskov 33 Global warming due to methane emission by livestock and its mitigation strategiesDN Kamra and AK Patra 34 Recent advances in feed evaluationNarayan Dutta and MK Tripathi 35 Herbal feed additives ? Role in animal nutritionMPS Bakshi and M Wadhwa 36 Niutrition and ImmunityKK Mishra KY Deshpande and SK Mishra 37 Protected proteins and Amino Acids in ruminantsKT Sampath M Chandrasekharaiah and A Thulasi 38 Environmental issues in livestock rearing and policiesSP Tiwari Usha R Mehra S Swamkar and S Nanda 39 Probiotics prebiotics and synbiotics feeding in ruminantsNeeta AgarwalThe 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 scientistsresearchers and academicians at national and international level will be benefitedThis 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 involvementThis 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 chapter.…