ANN 111: Principles of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology (2+1)

Introduction

IMPORTANCE OF NUTRIENTS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH

The efficiency of animal production depends on nutritional status of animal and management practices. Nutrition plays a pivotal role in animal production and health as:

• It brings out the genetic potentiality of the animal. For example, even if a cow has a capacity of producing 25 litres of milk per day as per genetic makeup, the cow can not produce 25 litres of milk per day if it is underfed.
• It makes the animal production economical as the cost of feeding of animals accounts for 70-75% of total animal production cost.
• It minimises the competition between human and animal for food by introducing non-conventional feeds for animal feeding.
• It manipulates feed ingredients for effective utilisation of nutrients.