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Tropical Dairy Farming: Feeding Management for Small Holder Dairy Farmers in the Humid Tropics

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Tropical Dairy Farming: Feeding Management For Small Holder Dairy Farmers In The Humid Tropics Pdf Download

By John Moran

Tropical Dairy Farming: Feeding Management for Small Holder Dairy Farmers in the Humid Tropics is a manual designed for use by dairy production advisors working in tropical areas, especially in South-East Asia. It aims to increase the productivity of small holder dairy farmers in the humid tropics by improving the feeding management of their livestock. It shows how to provide dairy cows with cost-effective feeds that match small holder farming systems and discusses the major obstacles to improving feeding management in the humid tropics.

The author shows the benefits and drawbacks of various feed components and the calculation of balanced diets based mainly on forages combined with some supplementary feeding. Diseases and problems associated with unbalanced diets are also covered, as well as important information on growing and conserving quality forages as silage.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Tropical dairy systems
  3. Small holder dairying
  4. What is in feeds?
  5. How the rumen works
  6. Nutrient requirements of dairy cows
  7. How feed requirements change during lactation
  8. Growing quality forages
  9. Making quality silage
  10. Supplements for milking cows
  11. Milk responses to supplements
  12. Formulating a diet
  13. Problems with unbalanced diets
  14. Diet and milk production
  15. Nutrition and fertility
  16. Nutrition and young stock
  17. Economics of milk production
  18. Body condition scoring
  19. Overcoming environmental constraints to cow performance
  20. Future developments in feeding management in the humid tropics
  21. Appendices

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