Tropical dairy farming
Subtitle: feeding management for small holder dairy farmers in the humid tropics
By: John Moran.
Publisher: Land Links
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Collingwood, VIC, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780643091238
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
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tropical dairy systems; title: Small holder dairying; title: What is in feeds?; title: How the rumen works; title: Nutrient requirements of dairy cows; title: How feed requirements change during lactation; title: Growing quality forages; title: Making quality silage; title: Supplements for milking cows; title: Milk responses to supplements; title: Formulating a diet; title: Problems with unbalanced diets; title: Diet and milk production; title: Nutrition and fertility; title: Nutrition and young stock; title: Economics of feeding dairy cows; title: Body condition scoring; title: Overcoming environmental constraints to cow performance; title: Future developments in feeding management in the humid topics.