Beef Cattle Nutrition Management
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This topic helps the reader to understand the ruminant digestive system, ration formulation and feeding regime, feedstuffs and dry matter requirements, factors affecting nutrient requirements, nutrition for breeding herd, nutrition for stocker cattle, nutrition for finishing cattle as well as growth promotants and production enhancers.
Proper nutrition of beef cattle is a key component in a successful beef production system as feed usually accounts for the single largest input cost associated with beef cattle feedlot operations; this topic helps the reader to understand the ruminant digestive system, ration formulation and feeding regime, feedstuffs and dry matter requirements, factors affecting nutrient requirements, nutrition for breeding herd, nutrition for stocker cattle, nutrition for finishing cattle as well as growth promotants and production enhancers.
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