Nutritional science is a science that studies the relationship between the composition and function of substances. It studies the sources functions of various nutrients necessary to maintain life, and how these nutrients are integrated into complexes and interact with the organism. Therefore, ruminant nutrition is a science that studies the health nutrition of ruminants, involving the nutritional needs of ruminants, the types, content and functions of nutrients, and how to provide appropriate nutrition and maintain the health of rants.
Ruminants include cattle, sheep, donkeys, horses, camels, etc. They are a complex and diverse group of organisms, and their nutritional needs referred to as "ruminant nutrition". This nutrition contains many organic and inorganic substances, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, etc., which have proportions. Nutritionists and animal husbandry workers should formulate ruminant nutritional formulas according to the growth and development stages of ruminants, the desired performance and the local past and other feed conditions.
Ruminant nutrition studies the reproduction, growth, development and performance of ruminants, as well as the relationship between these processes and nutrition. addition, it also involves the research on ruminant nutritional feeds, including the development and production of raw materials into finished nutritional feeds, the conditioning of ruminant nutritional feeds, how to optimize the composition and quality of nutritional feeds.
Ruminant nutrition also studies the relationship between various nutritional factors and the performance of ruminants, such as the of proteins, vitamins and minerals on the growth, development and performance of ruminants; the effects of energy and carbohydrates on the exercise ability and reproductive capacity of ruminants: effects of fat on the disease resistance and fat metabolism of ruminants, etc.
In addition, ruminant nutrition also involves the following aspects: Feed utilization rate, guide the correct feeding of ruminants, and optimize the feeding status of ruminants; Feed cost optimization: Nutritional regulation, guide ruminant nutritional combination, so it reaches the best nutritional state; Ruminant medication, involving the relationship between drugs and nutritional regulation, in order to improve the disease resistance and immunity of ruminants: The of ruminant nutrition can assist farmers in improving the efficiency of animal husbandry, improve the physique and performance of ruminants, improve the health of ruminants, improve the rate of exit and slaughter.