Adaptable to subtropical, temperate grassland, semi-arid and mountainous environments, amenable to small farms and hand-feeding or large farms with sophisticated feeding systems, and long proven to be profitable, dairy goats have become important to sustainable livestock farming. In addition, goat milk products have become increasingly popular in the world market. These 12 articles give researchers and practitioners the details on the unique feeding needs of dairy goats and the effects of that feeding on milk quality, covering such topics as mathematical models of goat lactation curves, variation of lipids in goats' milk and its protein components, aromatic and nutritional qualities, energy and protein requirements of goats, feed intake, foraging behavior and intake on Mediterranean shrub lands herbaceous pastures, management in intensive feeding systems, nutrition for fiber production, and metabolic or nutritional diseases. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)