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Animal nutrition |
The science of feed preparation and feeding The science of nourishment of animals |
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Nutrients |
Food constituents that are released by digestion from their combination in food and absorbed from the digestive tract, or are the product of metabolism of these constituents in the digestive tract |
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Raw material |
Synthesizes body tissues and products |
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Energy |
Needed for body tissue and animal product synthesis and other purposes such as basic life process |
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Raw mterials Energy Metabolism of other nutrients |
Functions of nutrients |
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Feed Coversion Ratio FCR |
The amount of feed in Kg or lb necessary to produce 1kg or 1lb of weight gain |
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Diet |
A regulated selection of a feed ingredient or mixture of ingredients including water, which is consumed by animals in a prescribed schedule |
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Ingredients |
Any of the feed item that a mixture is made of |
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Additives |
An ingredient or a mixture of ingredients added to the basic feed mixture for specific purpose |
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Ration |
A fixed amount of feed for one animal, fed on a definite period, usually for a 24hr period |
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Balanced ration |
The ration which provide an animal with the proper amount, proportion, and variety of all the required nutrients to keep the animal in its form to perform best in respect of production and health |
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Complete ration |
A sigle feed mixture, which has all of the dietary essentials except water for a given class of livestock |
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Feed Convertion Effeciency FCE |
The gain in weight in kg or lb, produced by 1kg or 1 lb of feed. It is the reciprocal of Feed Convertion Ratio |
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Calorie |
A unit of measurement used for calculating the amount of energy produce by various foods It is tge amount if eat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree |
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Forage or Roughage |
Poor quality feeds containing lesser amount of total digestible nutrients (TDN) or more than 35 percent of cell wall constituents and more than 18 percent of crude fiber (CF) |
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Concentrate |
It contains a little amount ( less than 18 percent) of crude fiber and more than 60 percent total digestible nutrients |
