
Animal Nutrition Group
We generate and transfer knowledge of the nutrition of animals to improve their production, health and welfare in a sustainable manner and improve the quality of life.
Staff
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Wouter prof.dr.ir. WH (Wouter) Hendriks Chair holder
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dr.ir. J (Jan) Dijkstra Associate professor
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prof.dr.ir. WJJ (Walter) Gerrits Associate professor
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Thomas dr.ir. AFB (Thomas) van der Poel Associate professor
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Rene dr.ir. RP (Rene) Kwakkel Assistant professor
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Wilbert dr. WF (Wilbert) Pellikaan Assistant professor
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Variation in efficacy of new feed supplement to reduce methane emissions identified
A novel methane inhibitor feed supplement, 3-nitrooxypropanol (3NOP), reduces methane emissions. The efficacy of 3NOP varies widely though, showing no methane emission reduction in some trials up to 85 percent reduction in others.
Read moreOur research
The Animal Nutrition (ANU) Group is one of the chair groups of the Department of Animal Sciences of Wageningen University & Research. In addition, ANU is the founding member of the Centre for Animal Nutrition; a collaboration between three internationally recognized animal nutrition groups in the Netherlands. The Centre develops fundamental and application-oriented expertise in animal nutrition and ensures the exchange and transfer of this expertise to government agencies, businesses, the primary animal nutrition sectors, societal institutions, NGOs and students.
Our research is focussed around the following areas:
- Resource efficiency
- Animal health, longevity and vitality
- Feed and pet food technology & quality
- Animal welfare
- Nutrigenomics
- Environmental issues related to animal nutrition
- Modelling of nutritional processes
Our latest publications
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Variations in N-linked glycosylation of glycosylation-dependent cell adhesion molecule 1 (GlyCAM-1) whey protein : Intercow differences and dietary effects
Journal of Dairy Science 104 (2021)4. - ISSN 0022-0302 - p. 1 - 13. -
Lipidome of cricket species used as food
Food Chemistry 349 (2021). - ISSN 0308-8146 -
Challenges and opportunities to capture dietary effects in on-farm greenhouse gas emissions models of ruminant systems
Science of the Total Environment 769 (2021). - ISSN 0048-9697 -
Abomasal infusion of ground corn and ammonium chloride in early-lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows to induce hindgut and metabolic acidosis
Journal of Dairy Science (2021). - ISSN 0022-0302 -
Effects of enzymatically hydrolysed poultry byproduct meal in extruded diets on serum angiotensin-converting enzyme activity and aldosterone in cats
Archives of Animal Nutrition 75 (2021)1. - ISSN 1745-039X - p. 64 - 77.