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Tropical dairy farming : feeding management for small holder dairy farmers in the humid tropics
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- Creator
- John Moran
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Collingwood, VIC, Australia : Land Links, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780643091238, 0643091238
- OCLC
- ocm63677120
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-268) and index.
- Introduction -- Tropical dairy systems -- Small holder dairying -- What is in feeds? -- How the rumen works -- Nutrient requirements of dairy cows -- How feed requirements change during lactation -- Growing quality forages -- Making quality silage -- Supplements for milking cows -- Milk responses to supplements -- Formulating a diet -- Problems with unbalanced diets -- Diet and milk production -- Nutrition and fertility -- Nutrition and young stock -- Economics of feeding dairy cows -- Body condition scoring -- Overcoming environmental constraints to cow performance -- Future developments in feeding management in the humid topics
Subjects
- Dairy farming -- Southeast Asia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Dairy farms -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
- Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Southeast Asia.
- Feeds -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
- Farms, Small -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
- Dairy farming -- Tropics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Dairy farms -- Tropics -- Management.
- Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Tropics.
- Feeds -- Tropics -- Management.
- Farms, Small -- Tropics -- Management.