Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle/1989/Book and Disk

By Subcommittee on Dairy Cattle Nutrition and National Research Council

The latest edition of Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle includes many improvements over the 1978 edition. The most significant advance in Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle is a computer program, provided on diskette, that includes all requirements for energy, protein, calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins A and D. It is compiled to run on PC-DOS or MS-DOS on IBM-compatible personal computers. A diskette accompanies each book.

Within the book, dry matter intake and energy concentration assumptions have been made more consistent from table to table. A major change involves the expression of protein requirements on the basis of degradable and undegradable intake protein and includes two systems to determine protein requirements. A new table enables users to find data for a cow that resembles their own animals and locate their specific energy, protein, and other dietary requirements. Other tables have been expanded to include data on the nutrient requirements during the 3 weeks of lactation and for cows with higher milk yields.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030903826X
• ISBN13: 9780309038263
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.5"