This document summarizes a book on feed supplements for livestock and poultry. The book contains 25 chapters contributed by 30 scientists, covering topics such as bypass fat, fatty acids, rumen bypass proteins, non-protein nitrogen sources, minerals, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and other feed supplements. It provides information on the significance and use of these supplements to support sustainable livestock and poultry production. The book is intended to be useful for students and researchers in animal nutrition, the feed industry, veterinarians, and animal farmers.

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FEED SUPPLEMENTS for
LIVESTOCK and POULTRY
Pankaj Kumar Singh • Ravindra Kumar
Sanjay Kumar • Kaushalendra Kumar
Editors
ISBN: 978-93-5124-367-0 ` 2495
This book on Feed Supplements for Livestock and
Poultry deals with the basic principles, technology
and application of feed supplements for livestock and
poultry in a systematic and comprehensive manner. This
book contains twenty five chapters contributed by 30
eminent scientists of animal nutrition, which highlights
the significance of supplementation of bypass fat,
essential fatty acids, rumen by-pass proteins, non-
protein-nitrogen sources, ideal protein, essential amino
acids, essential macro and mico-minerals, organic trace
minerals, area specific mineral mixtures, vitamins,
commercial nutraceuticals, nucleotide, single cell
protein, hydroponically sprouted grains, azolla, distillers‘ dried grains
etc. for sustainable livestock and poultry production. Each chapter of the book
attempts at providing clear and updated information on feed supplements supported with good
amount of the experimental evidence and references which will enable the students and research
workers to obtain information quickly when necessary.
The book is useful to students of animal sciences, teachers and scientists of animal nutrition
discipline, personnel of feed industry, field veterinarians, animal husbandry extension workers
and progressive animal farmers.
Dr. Pankaj Kumar Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Animal Nutrition at Bihar Veterinary College, Patna, Bihar, India.
During his 12 years of teaching and research experiences in the field of Animal
Nutrition and Feed Technology, he has published 3 books, 9 book chapters, 5
laboratorymanuals,50researchpapersand35technicalarticles.
Dr. Ravindra Kumar is currently working as Senior Scientist (Animal Nutrition) at
Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Mathura under Indian
Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Nutrition at
Bihar Veterinary College, Patna. He obtained M.V. Sc. and Ph. D in Animal Nutrition
from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. He is having six years of experience
in teaching, research and extension in the field of Animal Nutrition.
Dr. Kaushalendra Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal
Nutrition at Bihar Veterinary College, Patna. He completed M.V.Sc. in Animal
Nutrition from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and Ph.D. in Animal
Nutrition from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar.
2015, xi+450 p., figs., tabls., ind., 25 cm

2. Foreword v
Preface vii
1. Feed Supplements: An Overview 1
Pankaj Kumar Singh and Ravindra Kumar
2. Bypass Fat Supplementation for Dairy Animals 6
Prafulla Kumar Naik
3. Significance of Fatty Acids Supplementation in Livestock and Poultry 25
Kaushalendra Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar
4. Rumen By-pass Protein Technology 49
Sanjay Kumar, Rajni Kumari and Kaushalendra Kumar
5. Non Proteinous Nitrogen Supplementation in Ruminants 68
Pankaj Kumar Singh, Ravindra Kumar, Chandramoni and Kaushal Kumar
6. Recent Advances in Amino Acid Nutrition in Poultry 85
Deben Sapcota
7. Calcium and Phosphorus Supplementation in Livestock and Poultry 99
Pankaj Kumar Singh, Chandramoni, Avinash Kumar and Amit Ranjan
8. Sulphur in Ruminant Nutrition 116
Nisha Jha
9. Balancing Dietary Cation Anion for Periparturient Animals 128
Vinod Kumar
10. Trace Mineral Supplementation in Farm Animals 137
Vinod Kumar, Debashis Roy and Muneendra Kumar
11. Organic Selenium as Feed Supplement for Livestock and Poultry 159
Kamdev Sethy and Kaushalendra Kumar
12. Significance of Chromium Supplementation in Poultry 180
Jyoti Palod
13. Significance of Heavy Metals in Livestock and Poultry 198
Debashis Roy, Vinod Kumar and Muneendra Kumar
14. Organic Trace Minerals in Animal Nutrition 222
Guru Prasad Mandal
15. Area Specific Mineral Mixture for Optimum Livestock Health and Production 233
Biswanath Sahoo, Amit Ranjan, Ranjan Kumar Mohanta and Akash Chandrakar
16. Vitamin Supplementation in Livestock and Poultry 258
Ravindra Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Singh and Avinash Kumar
17. Recent Advances in Nutraceuticals for Livestock Health 278
Md. Moin Ansari
18. Commercial Neutraceuticals for Livestock and Poultry 294
Ankit Kumar and Kaushal Kumar
19. Feed Supplements for Improving Fertility in Female Livestock 323
Nishant Kumar, Mamta Sharma, Vivek Prasad Gupta, Santosh Shinde and Jyoti Manjusha
20. Supplements for Quality Semen Production 345
Thakur Krishna Shankar Rao
21. Nucleotides Supplementation in Livestock and Poultry 362
Shardul Vikram Lal, Rajni Kumari and Sanjay Kumar
22. Single Cell Protein for Livestock Feeding 380
Rajni Kumari, Sanjay Kumar, Kaushalendra Kumar and Shanker Dayal
23. Hydroponically Sprouted Grains as Dairy Feed 391
Prafulla Kumar Naik
24. Distillers’ Dried Grains with Solubles in Cattle and Poultry Feed 408
Amit Ranjan, Biswanath Sahoo and Pankaj Kumar Singh
25. Azolla for Sustainable Livestock and Poultry Production 426
Anupam Chatterjee
Index 443