Animal Nutrition Group

Animal Nutrition Group
Wageningen University and Research Center

Organisation type: 
University
Country: 
Netherlands
Short name: 
WU
Description: 

The Animal Nutrition (ANU) Group is one of the chair groups of the Department of Animal Sciences of Wageningen University & Research. In addition, ANU is the founding member of the Centre for Animal Nutrition; a collaboration between three internationally recognized animal nutrition groups in the Netherlands. The Centre develops fundamental and application-oriented expertise in animal nutrition and ensures the exchange and transfer of this expertise to government agencies, businesses, the primary animal nutrition sectors, societal institutions, NGOs and students.

The Animal Nutrition Group aims to provide a fundamental understanding of nutritional processes and the effect of dietary compounds on the health, growth, welfare or longevity of production animals (dairy cows, calves, pigs, poultry) and companion animals (cats, dogs and horses). We develop knowledge on the utilisation of (anti-)nutrients in feed/feed ingredients and their impact on the animal. We follow dietary nutrients as they are broken down (digested and fermented), absorbed and metabolised by animals.

Our research is focussed around the following areas:
-Resource efficiency
-Animal health, longevity and vitality
-Feed and pet food technology & quality
-Animal welfare
-Nutrigenomics
-Environmental issues related to animal nutrition
-Modelling of nutritional processes in vitro and in silico

International: 
No