AVS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rumen, Phospholipid, Beta Oxidation
14 Mar 2017
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Animal health lecture 10: nutrition and animal health. 80% of the cost of production animals is feed. Ruminants: quality of hay, what kind of hay, what has contaminated/gotten mixed into the hay. How was the feed stored and was it stored properly are two big important questions. Good nutrition can lead to good resistance of disease/well fed animal is less likely to get sick then a malnourished animal. Nutrition can cause disease, a lack of a mineral or vitamin de ciency in the feed is causing health problems. It can be used to bring recovering animals back to a level of performance. Need to know the make up of the feed/ its nutrients requirements, can vary depending on individual animals. Dna is encoded to make proteins, some we can make easily and some not so easily. 21 amino acids: there are 10 essentials that need to be in diets- arginine, methionine, histidine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, threonine, leucine, tryptophan, lysine, valine.
