News of the Animal Nutrition Group
News
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Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
- To replace cereals in animal feed with less sticky co-products from circular agriculture, there is an urgent need to find out how animal feed pellets... -
Sub-optimal growth performance in pigs under low sanitary conditions can be partly compensated by adjustments of the diet
- Growing-finishing pigs kept under low sanitary conditions (LSC) eat and grow less than pigs kept under high sanitary conditions (HSC). Researchers at... -
Kelly Nichols receives Pieter Walstra Award
- Research scientist Kelly Nichols of Wageningen University & Research has won the Pieter Walstra Award. The purpose of this prestigious award is to... -
How zinc influences gut health and immune competence of pigs
- High concentration of zinc (as zinc oxide) in diets in the post-weaning period of piglets potentially modulate the animal’s intestinal... -
Towards ”perfect” heifer management (summary)
- The International Symposium on Dairy Cattle Nutrition 2019 (17 January) was happy to host almost 300 international participants for an exchange on the... -
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... -
Revised regional methane emission factors required for dairy cattle
- An international consortium of animal scientists concludes that revised methane emission factors for specific regions are required to improve methane... -
New methods to predict methane emissions of dairy cattle
- Methane emissions of dairy cattle can be predicted using both milk fatty acids and milk infrared spectra. This has been demonstrated by researchers at... -
Fighting feather pecking from a feed perspective
- Feather pecking is a growing societal and economic concern, since the 2012 EU-ban on battery cages for laying hens. The upcoming ban on beak trimming... -
Utilizing the growth potential of piglets in a multi-litter housing system
- Wageningen University & Research starts research to develop a novel, integrated, economically profitable multi-litter housing system for sows and...