Contributors; Preface; 1 Forages and Their Role in Animal Systems; 2 Forage Evaluation for Efficient Ruminant Livestock Production; 3 Intake of Forages; 4 Prediction of Energy Supply in Ruminants, with Emphasis on Forages; 5 Forage Evaluation Using Measurements of Energy Metabolism; 6 The Measurement of Forage Digestibility In Vivo; 7 Faeces as a Source of Microbial Enzymes for Estimating Digestibility; 8 Enzyme Techniques for Estimating Digestibility; 9 The In Situ Technique for the Estimation of Forage Degradability in Ruminants; 10 Cumulative Gas-production Techniques for Forage Evaluation
Summary
This volume contains 21 chapters, which are principally in-depth reviews, in 6 sections covering: the importance of forage evaluation for humans and animals; estimating the energy value of forages; estimating the protein value of forages; physicochemical approaches; minerals, vitamins, antinutritive and other factors; and general conclusion and discussion. There is an index. Chapters have been abstracted individually
