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From the Feed Trough: Essays and Insights on Livestock Nutrition in a Complex World
Are you interested in nutrition? Do you enjoy reading about livestock? Then this book is for you.
We all have questions about feeding animals. But how do you select the best feed when you are faced with a dozen choices in the farm supply store? Or why do animals suffer from mineral deficiencies even though you are feeding minerals? Or do you wish you could look at a feed tag and understand the story it tells?
This book will help you make better decisions about feeding livestock. It’s not a dry textbook. The chapters were derived from my articles first published in popular magazines. They describe nutritional principles and common feed situations, give practical guidelines, explain the underlying chemistry, and share colorful background stories behind each topic. Especially with sheep, cattle, goats, horses, and even humans.
Some of the basic building blocks of livestock energy, protein, fiber, fat.Minerals and vitamins — how the main ones function, practical deficiency situations, which ones are important and which ones are not necessary to feed cattle and sheep.How to read feed tags and forage tests.Old hay or good hay, barn fires, pelleting feeds, cold stress.The annual sheep production cycle, lambing, weaning, early-weaning, fast-growing lambs, feeding grain or roughage.Interesting nutritional stories, like the exceptionally powerful role of vitamin D which is really a hormone, not a vitamin. Or why the calorie values listed on supermarket food labels don’t tell us how much energy we really digest. Or how an unexpected vitamin deficiency devastated a famous expedition in Australia.For example, one chapter opens with “This is a story of bureaucratic bungling, a Nobel prize, three brilliant scientists, two countries, moldy hay, and rat poison. I am talking, of course, about the discovery of Vitamin K.”And so much more.My background includes a Ph.D. from Cornell University in animal nutrition, a few years as a college professor, and more than 30 years as a private consultant, teaching nutrition, giving workshops, and advising farmers and ranchers about feeding animals.
From The Feed Trough is a book like nothing else. Short, easy-to-read chapters — sometimes with a bit of humor — get under the hood about nutrition, about the principles and science of feeding livestock, about history, about oddball scenarios, about thinking like a nutritionist. You’ll really enjoy it.
Buy your copy today.
We all have questions about feeding animals. But how do you select the best feed when you are faced with a dozen choices in the farm supply store? Or why do animals suffer from mineral deficiencies even though you are feeding minerals? Or do you wish you could look at a feed tag and understand the story it tells?
This book will help you make better decisions about feeding livestock. It’s not a dry textbook. The chapters were derived from my articles first published in popular magazines. They describe nutritional principles and common feed situations, give practical guidelines, explain the underlying chemistry, and share colorful background stories behind each topic. Especially with sheep, cattle, goats, horses, and even humans.
Some of the basic building blocks of livestock energy, protein, fiber, fat.Minerals and vitamins — how the main ones function, practical deficiency situations, which ones are important and which ones are not necessary to feed cattle and sheep.How to read feed tags and forage tests.Old hay or good hay, barn fires, pelleting feeds, cold stress.The annual sheep production cycle, lambing, weaning, early-weaning, fast-growing lambs, feeding grain or roughage.Interesting nutritional stories, like the exceptionally powerful role of vitamin D which is really a hormone, not a vitamin. Or why the calorie values listed on supermarket food labels don’t tell us how much energy we really digest. Or how an unexpected vitamin deficiency devastated a famous expedition in Australia.For example, one chapter opens with “This is a story of bureaucratic bungling, a Nobel prize, three brilliant scientists, two countries, moldy hay, and rat poison. I am talking, of course, about the discovery of Vitamin K.”And so much more.My background includes a Ph.D. from Cornell University in animal nutrition, a few years as a college professor, and more than 30 years as a private consultant, teaching nutrition, giving workshops, and advising farmers and ranchers about feeding animals.
From The Feed Trough is a book like nothing else. Short, easy-to-read chapters — sometimes with a bit of humor — get under the hood about nutrition, about the principles and science of feeding livestock, about history, about oddball scenarios, about thinking like a nutritionist. You’ll really enjoy it.
Buy your copy today.
419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 12, 2014
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