Effects of Feed Ingredients on Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics in Animals

Dear Colleagues, 

The high costs of nutrition force farmers to consider optimal precision feeding, feed quality and feed digestibility. Therefore, ensuring the good quality of ingredients and feed additives is an indispensable element of modern animal nutrition. Feed additives which improve nutrient absorption could be a way of reducing the feeding cost and negative environmental impacts of farms. Ingredients and supplements dedicated to animals’ early lives can long-term animal health and future growth performance. More and more consumers are choosing foods that are beneficial to health, originating from animals fed with good-quality feed ingredients and natural feed additives that modify the quality of meat and other animal products. In this Topical Collection, beyond the aforementioned issues we are also interested in ingredients and additives which improve the growth performance and meat quality of animals exposed to heat stress, as well as those intended for companion animals.

This Topical Collection is interested in research papers and reviews on all aspects related to the efficiency of feed ingredients and their effects on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality. We invite you to share your recent findings in this Topical Collection.

Prof. Dr. Eugeniusz Ryszard Grela
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Świątkiewicz
Collection Editors

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