Animal Nutrition Group

We provide education and develop and transfer knowledge of the nutrition of animals. We aim to optimise the production of safe and healthy foods for human consumption in a sustainable manner and to safeguard the health and welfare of production and companion animals.

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Advances in Feed Evaluation Science

This seminar provides a concise update on the principles of feed evaluation as applied to the livestock industries. This seminar is intended for nutritionists, feed formulators, advisors, managers,
teachers, researchers and professionals involved in animal feed manufacture.

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Our research

The Animal Nutrition Group develops knowledge on the utilisation of (anti)-nutrients in feed and feed ingredients and their impact on the animal. The Animal Nutrition Group has unique research capacities in the following disciplines:

  • Indirect calorimetry
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Nutrigenomics

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Our facilities

The analytical facilities of the Animal Nutrition Group contains several laboratories, a climate respiration unit and a feed processing centre that advices in animal feed science and technology.

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