Matching Ruminant Production Systems with Available Resources in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics

T R Preston and R A Leng

preston@lrrd.org       rleng@ozemail.com.au

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Livestock Development Strategies

Chapter 3: Digestive Physiology of Ruminants

Chapter 4: Metabolism

Chapter 5: Manipulation of Feeding and the Rumen Ecosystem

Chapter 6: Control of Feed Intake in Ruminants

Chapter 7: Guidelines for Feeding Systems

Chapter 8: Feeding Systems: Straws and Agro-Industrial Byproducts

Chapter 9: Pasture-based Feeding Systems

Chapter 10: Parasite/Nutrition Interactions

Chapter 11: Nutritional Principles: Smallholder Livestock Systems

Chapter 12: Perspectives

Chapter 13: References

Acknowlegments

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