ANSC 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Essential Amino Acid, Nutrient, Proteinogenic Amino Acid
Document Summary
The study of how the body uses nutrients in feeds/foods to sustain life. Nutrient is any chemical substance in the diet that supports or and for productive purposes. maintains life processes. Non-ruminants have a simple, one compartment stomach (mono- gastric). Applied nutrionists: production: interested in maximal, cost-effective feeding of animals in, using feedstuffs in the best possible way to make money, can be referred to as feed-um and weigh-um research. In order to be a good nutrionist you have to consider other disciplines such as biochemistry, endocrinology, genetics, mathematics, microbiology, physiology, etc. Feed costs as a % of total production costs for various species are: swine: 60-70, beef cattle (feedlot): 70, chickens: 50-65, lambs: 50, least cost rations are fed. In commercial livestock production, it"s important to study nutrition to be able to feed livestock cost-effectively. Depending on the type of enterprise, the cost of feed and feeding is.
