Proceedings of a January 2002 workshop organized by the European Association for Animal Production and held in Dijon, France. An opening paper on representations of equestrian structures managers on horse nutrition is followed by 12 papers organized into two sections on European systems used for evaluating the energy requirements of performance horses, and European systems used for evaluating the protein requirements of performance horses. A sampling of topics: digestible energy requirements of horses for maintenance and work, the Scandinavian adaptation of the French UFC system, voluntary food intake by horses, the Dutch net protein system, the German system for digestible crude protein, and a comparison of practical application of different systems. No subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by Enfield. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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