Nutrient Requirements of Small Ruminants: Sheep, Goats, Cervids, and New World Camelids

Nutrient Requirements of Small Ruminants: Your Essential Guide

This new book updates previous publications to provide an evaluation of the scientific literature on the nutrient requirements of small ruminants in all stages of life. It brings together a summary of the latest data with new and expanded information on the composition of feeds commonly consumed by domestic and wild small ruminants. The book is written to ensure that diets of small ruminants contain adequate amounts of nutrients for optimal health and performance.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Evaluation: This book provides an evaluation of the scientific literature on the nutrient requirements of small ruminants in all stages of life, covering breed, age, exercise, pregnancy, and lactation.
• Expanded Species Coverage: For the first time, this authoritative reference work includes information on cervids and camelids, alongside sheep and goats.
• Environmental Factors: The book addresses the effects of the environment, feed additives, and metabolism modifiers on nutrient requirements.
• Practical and Technical Reference: It is designed as both a practical and a technical reference book to ensure diets contain adequate amounts of nutrients and that excessive intakes do not inhibit performance or impair health.
• Broad Audience: Primarily intended for animal nutritionists, veterinarians, and other scientists, some sections will be useful to individual sheep and goat owners and managers and to those responsible for the care and management of wildlife species.