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

REQUIREMENT AND SUPPLEMENTATION

Requirement

• Pig: 80-160 micro gram /day
• Poultry 5-9 micro gram /day
• Sheep 50 -100 micro gram /day
• Cattle 400- 800 micro gram /day

Supplementation

• The richest sources of this element are foods of marine origin like seaweed's, fish meal etc,.
• In areas where goiter is endemic, precautions are generally taken by supplementing the diet with the element, usually in the form of iodized salt.