
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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prof.dr.ir. WJJ (Walter) Gerrits Chair holder
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prof.dr.ir. WH (Wouter) Hendriks Professor in Animal Nutrition
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dr.ir. J (Jan) Dijkstra Associate professor
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dr.ir. RP (Rene) Kwakkel Associate professor
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dr.ir. S (Sonja) de Vries Associate professor
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dr. WF (Wilbert) Pellikaan Assistant professor
Featured
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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MRCKα is a novel regulator of prolactin-induced lactogenesis in bovine mammary epithelial cells
Animal Nutrition 10 (2022). - ISSN 2405-6545 - p. 319 - 328. -
Full adoption of the most effective strategies to mitigate methane emissions by ruminants can help meet the 1.5 °C target by 2030 but not 2050
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (2022)20. - ISSN 0027-8424 -
Sanitary Conditions on the Farm Alters Fecal Metabolite Profile in Growing Pigs
Metabolites 12 (2022)6. - ISSN 2218-1989 -
Opinion paper: How can we achieve standards and common guidelines for experimental studies with cattle?
Animal 16 (2022)7. - ISSN 1751-7311 -
Evaluation of plant-based recipes meeting nutritional requirements for dog food : The effect of fractionation and ingredient constraints
Animal Feed Science and Technology 290 (2022). - ISSN 0377-8401