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Satish Serial Publishing House Laboratory Manual of Applied Non-Ruminant Nutrition Unit 4 by Kumar Vinod Muneendra Kumar Raju Kushwaha Shalini Vaswani & Avinash Kumar
Together, animals in the non-ruminant category provide a large amount of affordable and nutritious food, especially high-quality protein, contributing to food security worldwide. Therefore, understanding the practical aspects of applied non-ruminant nutrition is very useful for the students to make them familiar with the different applied aspects of poultry, pig, horse, pet, and zoo animal nutrition. This practical manual on “Applied Nonruminants Nutrition,” authored and compiled by “Vinod Kumar, Muneendra Kumar, Raju Kushwaha, Shalini Vaswani, and Avinash Kumar, has been formulated and designed to meet the needs of UG and PG students, research scholars, teachers, and scientists working in the area of animal nutrition. The practical information in this manual represents an attempt to summarise practical information regarding principles of compounding and mixing of feeds, computation of poultry rations, calculation of nutrient requirements for broiler birds, formulation of rations for broiler birds, calculation of nutrient requirements for egg-type birds (starter and grower), formulation of rations for egg-type birds (layers), calculation of nutrient requirements for swine, ration formulation for swine, nutrient requirements and feed formulation for horses, formulation of balance diets for dogs and cats, feeds, and feeding schedule of zoo animals and birds—diet charts. This manual also provides a detailed insight into poultry farm management. Each section of the manual provides a structured approach to learning by covering the topics in a uniform and systematic format.