Re-defining Mineral Nutrition is to examine the current status of dietary mineral recommendations and applications for farm livestock.

Re-defining Mineral Nutrition covers comprehensively the influence of minerals on various aspects of growth, health and nutrition.

Contents

1. Setting the NRC Standards for Minerals - Were we Right?
2. Trace Minerals: What Text Books Don't Tell You
3. Feeding the Sow and Piglet to Achieve Maxium Antioxidant and Immunity Protection
4. Piglet Diets: Can we Manage Without Zinc Oxide and Copper Sulfate?
5. The Role of Organic Minerals in Modern Pig Production
6. Trace Mineral Requirements of Poultry - Validity of the NRC Recommendations
7. Minerals, Disease and Immune Function
8. Lessons in Human Mineral Nutrition: What Can we Learn?
9. Minerals and Anti-Oxidants
10. Novel Approaches to Improving Poultry Meat Production: do Organic Minerals have a Role?
11. Eggs to Chicks: Optimising Hen Performance
12. The Role of Peptides in Absorption Pathways
13. Fertility: Why it is Declining and the Role of Trace Minerals to Reverse this Trend
14. Mastitis in the Modern Dairy Cow and the Role of Nutrition and Management
15. Organic Selenium for Supplementation of Farm Animal Diets: it's Influence on the Selenium Status of the Animals and on the Dietary Selenium Intake of man
16. Dairy Farming in the EU: is There a Future?

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