Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

Methods for Measuring Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility 301 Fig. 13.7.Estimation of the apparent ileal digestibility of cysteine (C ...

reviewed for cereal grains, protein sup- plements and legume seeds. In addition to different processing conditions and inherent ...

Agriculture Research Council (1981) The Nutrient Requirements of Pigs. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, Slough, UK. Austic, R.E ...

Furuya, S. and Kaji, Y. (1989) Estimation of the true ileal digestibility of amino acids and nitrogen from their apparent values ...

Lin, F.D., Knabe, D.A. and Tanksley, T.D., Jr (1987) Apparent digestibility of amino acids, gross energy and starch in corn, sor ...

with ileo-cecal re-entrant cannulas. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 58, 122–133. Van Soest, P.J., Uden, P. an ...

Chapter 14 Rapid Metabolizable Energy Assays J.M. McNab Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian, UK Introduction The ec ...

of the feed. Attempts to test or verify the validity of equations obviously founder if consistent values cannot be produced. Ext ...

still find favour in many laboratories today. In the substitution method (Hill and Anderson, 1958), the dietary ingredient to be ...

correction is tantamount to correcting to the nitrogen retention prevailing in the assay. Just as AME values are corrected to ni ...

assays, is the most precise means of measuring energy intake, because both food spillage and changes in dietary dry matter conte ...

water intake and the random nature of caecal evacuation. Sibbald (1976) origi- nally proposed an initial starvation period of 24 ...

area and one where firm conclusions are not possible. In our laboratory, it has been observed consistently that, despite the rea ...

methods of choice for the future. To fulfil this objective, no effort should be spared to resolve the uncertainty surrounding th ...

Sibbald, I.R. (1982) Measurement of bioavailable energy in poultry feedingstuffs: a review. Canadian Journal of Animal Science62 ...

Part III Intake and Utilization ...

Chapter 15 Physiological and Metabolic Aspects of Feed Intake Control J.M. Forbes Centre for Animal Sciences, School of Biology, ...

and thence to the general circulation. There are several types of receptor in the stomach, intestines and liver which can inform ...

during a 30 min test, compared with four when saline was injected (Parrott et al., 1986). Even if it were thought sensible to us ...

As an example of learning, consider the effect of injections of cholecystokinin (CCK, see below) on the preference by chickens f ...