Nutrition and Metabolism in Poultry
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editor
Interests: poultry production; broilers; broiler breeders; ingredients; requirements; feed additives
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are many challenges affecting poultry production worldwide. It is important that we evaluate the factors that affect ingredient utilization, nutrition, metabolism, and feed processing in poultry. The poultry industry is also facing an urgent need to innovate in relation to nutritional requirements and enhanced sustainability.
We invite colleagues to share their ongoing work, in the form of research papers, in this Special Issue of Metabolites, which will focus on the most challenging areas in commercial poultry production, exploring recent advances in nutrition, metabolism, and cost-effective diets to improve feed efficiency. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Current challenges in poultry production and sustainability;
- Quality of ingredients in poultry feed;
- Factors affecting nutrition and intestinal health;
- Methods of evaluating health parameters and nutrient utilization;
- Recent advances in poultry requirements;
- Energy and nutrient digestibility;
- Nutrition and metabolism affecting meat and egg quality;
- Factors affecting the metabolism of carbohydrates, protein, and lipids;
- Feed processing and feed quality;
- Nutritional aspects influencing poultry progenies;
- Feed additives for broilers, breeder hens, and layers.
Prof. Dr. Catarina Stefanello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ingredient
- feed additive
- feed quality
- nutrient utilization
- intestinal health
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