Recent Advances In Animal Nutrition - 2006

The ruminant nutrition section contains chapters relating to high-yielding dairy cows, including milk fatty acids with respect to human health, efficiency of milk protein synthesis, nutritional effects on fertility, body condition score targets and extended lactations.

A general section covers anti-oxidants in food, health benefits of meat consumption, interpretation and application of recent EU rulings, and the implications for animal agriculture of enlarged EU membership.

Co-products as feed raw materials are of increasing importance, particularly in the context of the biofuels industry. The implications of co- products for the animal feed industry, and the importance of processing control in optimizing their nutritional value are discussed.

Meat quality is considered in two chapters; the first reviews the impact of muscle glycogen content on pig meat quality and the second considers the role of L-carnitine on muscle development in pigs. In view of concerns over H5N1 avian influenza, a general consideration of poultry zoonoses (mainly from meat) is presented.

The non-ruminant section covers nutrition x genetic interactions from the perspective of introducing different selection criteria into breeding programmes, nutrition of sows and boars, physico-chemical changes to starch during processing with subsequent implications for piglet nutrition and, ‘home-grown’ legumes in non-ruminant diets

Contents

• Milk fatty acids: implications for human health
• Milk protein: biology supports balancing rations for amino acids
• Nutrient regulation of hormonal, humoral and cellular responses in postpartum lactating dairy Cows: building blocks for restoration of fertility?
• Body condition score in dairy cows: targets for production and fertility
• Extended lactations in intensive and pasture-based dairying
• Antioxidants in animal products
• Meat as a component of a healthy diet – are there any risks or benefits if meat is avoided in the diet?
• Interpretation and application of EC rulings
• European union enlargement: effects on UK animal agriculture
• By-products from non-food agriculture:  implications for the feed supply industry
• By-products from non-food agriculture:  technicalities of nutrition and quality
• Effects of manipulating muscle glycogen on meat quality in pigs
• Effects of l-carnitine and other strategies to influence prenatal muscle development and
  subsequent offspring performance
• Poultry zoonoses
• Genetics and nutrition: what’s around the corner?
• Sow and boar nutrition: modern nutrition for modern genotypes
• Physicochemical changes to starch structure during processing of raw materials and their implications for starch digestibility in newly-weaned piglets
• Nutritional value of legumes (pea and faba bean) and economics of their use
• List of participants
• Index