Animal Nutrition And Welfare

Animal Nutrition And Welfare

Animal nutrition welfare  focuses on meeting nutritional requirements like carbohydrates, fatty acids ,minerals and vitamins to correct deficiencies in basic diet & livestock in maintaing acceptable perfomance of neonetal,growing, finishing and breeding animals.Meeting livestock nutritional requirements is extremely important. From a practical standpoint, an optimal nutritional program should ensure adequate intakes of amino acids (both traditionally classified essential and nonessential), carbohydrates, fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins by animals through a supplementation program that corrects deficiencies in basal diets (e.g., corn- and soybean meal-based diets for swine; milk replacers for calves and lambs; and available forage for ruminants). Additionally, dietary supplementation with certain nutrients (e.g., arginine, glutamine, zinc, and conjugated linoleic acid) can regulate gene expression and key metabolic pathways to improve fertility, pregnancy outcome, immune function, neonatal survival and growth, feed efficiency, and meat quality. Overall, the proper balance of protein, energy, vitamins and all nutritionally important minerals in diets is needed to make a successful nutrition program that is both productive and economical.


Last Updated on: Nov 25, 2024

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