Customer Reviews

Basic Animal Nutrition and Feeding

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I am sorry to say that I am disappointed in this book. While other editions may have been better, this one is riddled with typos, grammatical errors, and disorganized chapters while fail to focus on the nutrition and feeding aspect of their sections.

All I can say is be careful when purchasing this book. My sister ordered this book and when the package arrived, it was the appendix version (gray cover) - Not the blue cover version of the book. So I ordered the book also to see if I would get the actual blue version of the book, and I got the appendix version too. So it ended up costing us money because we had to return it, and amazon doesn't have a selection for "not the book ordered"

I'm a Veterinary Medicine Student and the National University of Colombia, Bogota, This is the book that is recommended for "Animal Nutrition" Course, I've read so far 5 chapters and it has been really amazing it explains things in easy and clear way to understand and on the other hand the student companion web page is great (I'll ad a link to it). I really recommend this book if you want to learn Basic animal Nutrition.

Ps.(The paper back cover can fold and get with wrinkles so I recommend to put a plastic on top to protect it).
Carlos Andres Pinzon A
Veterinary Medicine Student
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Bogota

Students Companion Web Page Link: [...]

This is one of those textbooks that you'll keep long after the class is over - I was skeptical when I opened the book for the first time and realized that it was much more of a resource text than a traditional textbook, there are no pictures and the text is supplemented only with scientific tables and graphs. However, I realized that in the long run it would be much more useful! If you want a comprehensive overview of animal nutrition you really can't do better then ponds!

This book is an authoritative text on the basic understanding of animal nutrition. Although the focus is livestock the principles are useful for all animals (including companion and exotics). It provides the basics that can be used to launch further study on specific nutritional topics, or enough for the non-nutritionist to grasp the principals required for understanding broad nutritional concepts. It is also a valuable reference book. It is organized based on the common principals of nutrition. The book delivered was as described.