Poultry Nutrition and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Poultry production, including meat and eggs, has become one of the major animal protein sources for decades. Heat stress, overdosed medicine, and irregular management induce plenty of problems, including oxidative stress damage and immune and gut barrier dysfunction. Moreover, the low-carbon and eco-efficient production of livestock and poultry is the foundation of global ecological and environmental governance. This Special Issue will focus on describing the interactions between the nutrition and management of poultry on the change of intestinal microbiota, antioxidant capacity, immune responses, metabolome, and then the growth performance, meat, and egg quality of birds. For instance, heat is one critical stress for poultry production to induce pathophysiological alterations and the gut barriers’ disruption based on the gut–liver axis, leading to reduced growth performance and even increased mortality. Both precision nutrition and functional feed additives are the major methods to dismiss the bad influence of in vitro and in vivo stresses on birds. Then, a great deal of research approaches have been applied for a deeper understanding of nutrition and management, including omics, etc. How these interactive modulations can help in enhancing production efficiency, decreasing in vitro and in vivo stress hostile effects, and reducing the use of antibiotics. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: poultry nutrition and management, antibiotic replacements, multi-omics analysis for gastrointestinal health, and metabolism.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Guangtian Cao
Guest Editor

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• poultry
• nutrition and management
• multi-omics
• antibiotic replacements
• metabolism