As climate change continues to have a significant impact on the modern world, it is crucial to find alternative sources of energy and nutrients for swine production. The development of optimal feeding revolves around a multitude of considerations—genetic variations in the pig, variability, availability, and stability of nutrients in feed ingredients, interactions among nutrients and non-nutritive factors, voluntary feed intake, physical (& social) environment of pigs, and more. Establishing the ideal network of factors will only grow in importance as humans assess the methods for our own food networks.
Sustainable Swine Nutrition is a comprehensive book on swine nutrition, covering some fundamental aspects of nutrition—namely digestive physiology, water, protein or amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, energy metabolism, vitamins, minerals, and nutrition and immunology. Providing the most up-to-date information on each of these areas, a major emphasis of this second edition is on recent developments and current advances in the field, with a focus on pertinent issues linked with energy and nutrients. In doing so, the book highlights topics and issues that can contribute to the ultimate goal of successful and sustainable swine production.
Sustainable Swine Nutrition readers will also find:
Environmentally friendly, optimal feeding strategies for successful and sustainable swine production
Recent developments, such as alternative feedstuffs, feed additives, and bioavailability
Expanded treatment and new chapters on swine physiology, energy and protein, technology, and more
Sustainable Swine Nutrition, Second Edition, is an ideal resource for livestock scientists and industry professionals involved in all aspects of pork production.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Editor
Part I Fundamental Nutrition
Chapter 1 Digestive Physiology and Nutrition of Swine
Chapter 2 Water in Swine Nutrition
Chapter 3 Energy and Energy Metabolism in Swine
Chapter 4 Lipids and Lipid Utilization in Swine
Chapter 5 Amino Acids and Amino Acid Utilization in Swine
Chapter 6 Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate Utilization in Swine
Chapter 7 Vitamins and Vitamin Utilization in Swine
Chapter 8 Minerals and Mineral Utilization in Swine
Chapter 9 Nutrition and Immunology in Swine
Part II Nutrition for Successful and Sustainable Swine Production
Chapter 10 Diet Formulation and Feeding Programs
Chapter 11 Cereal Grains, Cereal Grain Byproducts, and Alternative Energy Sources
Chapter 12 Major Protein Supplements in Swine Diets
Chapter 13 Pulse Grains and Their Coproducts in Swine Diets
Chapter 14 Fiber in Swine Nutrition
Chapter 15 Anti-nutritional Factors in Feedstuffs
Chapter 16 Feed Processing Technology and Quality of Feeds
Chapter 17 Enzymes and Enzyme Supplementation of Swine Diets
Chapter 18 Feed Additives in Swine Diets
Chapter 19 Bioavailability of Amino Acids, Phosphorus, and Others
Chapter 20 Swine Nutrition and Environment
Chapter 21 Swine Housing System, Behavior, and Welfare
Chapter 22 Feeding Reproducing Swine and Neonatal Pigs
Chapter 23 Feeding Weanling, Grower, and Finisher Swine
