
News of the Animal Nutrition Group
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Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
July 30, 2020 - News - 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
May 20, 2020 - News - 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
March 13, 2020 - News - 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
October 7, 2019 - News - High concentration of zinc (as zinc oxide) in diets in the post-weaning period of piglets potentially modulate the animal’s intestinal... -
Variation in efficacy of new feed supplement to reduce methane emissions identified
August 24, 2018 - News - 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
March 16, 2018 - News - 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
March 15, 2018 - News - Methane emissions of dairy cattle can be predicted using both milk fatty acids and milk infrared spectra. This has been demonstrated by researchers at... -
Utilizing the growth potential of piglets in a multi-litter housing system
June 23, 2017 - News - Wageningen University & Research starts research to develop a novel, integrated, economically profitable multi-litter housing system for sows and... -
Fighting feather pecking from a feed perspective
June 23, 2017 - News - 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... -
International Dairy Nutrition Symposium on transition cow management
April 14, 2017 - News - New perspectives on transition cow management is the theme of the International Dairy Nutrition Symposium on Thursday 26 October 2017 in Wageningen.