| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Tropical dairy systems -- Small holder dairying -- What is in feeds? -- How the rumen works -- Nutrient requirements of dairy cows -- How feed requirements change during lactation -- Growing quality forages -- Making quality silage -- Supplements for milking cows -- Milk responses to supplements -- Formulating a diet -- Problems with unbalanced diets -- Diet and milk production -- Nutrition and fertility -- Nutrition and young stock -- Economics of feeding dairy cows -- Body condition scoring -- Overcoming environmental constraints to cow performance -- Future developments in feeding management in the humid topics. |
| Summary |
Tropical Dairy Farming 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dairy farming -- Southeast Asia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Dairy farming. |
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Southeast Asia. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Dairy farms -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
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Dairy farms. |
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Management. |
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Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Southeast Asia.
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Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds. |
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Feeds -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
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Feeds. |
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Farms, Small -- Southeast Asia -- Management.
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Farms, Small. |
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Dairy farming -- Tropics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Tropics. |
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Dairy farms -- Tropics -- Management.
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Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Tropics.
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Feeds -- Tropics -- Management.
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Farms, Small -- Tropics -- Management.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moran, John, 1945- Tropical dairy farming. Collingwood, VIC, Australia : Land Links, ©2005 0643091238 (OCoLC)63677120 |
| ISBN |
0643093133 (electronic book) |
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9780643093133 (electronic book) |
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