Advances in Poultry Nutrition: Nutritional Regulation for Health Improvement, Efficient Production and Low-Carbon Sustainable Farming

A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases in Veterinary Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 January 2027 | Viewed by 455

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Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
Interests: poultry nutrition; gut health; meat quality; efficient animal husbandry

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College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Interests: green farming; low-carbon sustainable feeding; oxidative stress and damage

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Intensive poultry production is currently confronted with multifaceted challenges, including deteriorated poultry health status, suboptimal nutrient utilization efficiency and excessive nutrient and carbon emissions. Conventional nutritional strategies, which overly prioritize growth and laying performance, can hardly satisfy the modern requirements of antibiotic-free breeding, precision feeding and low-carbon sustainable poultry farming. As a pivotal modifiable intervention, nutritional regulation serves as a powerful approach to synchronize poultry health maintenance, production optimization and environmentally friendly cultivation. This Special Issue highlights innovative nutritional regulation strategies dedicated to improving poultry health, enhancing production efficiency and achieving low-carbon farming. It welcomes high-quality original research and review articles covering intestinal health modulation, metabolic disorder mitigation, precision nutrition optimization, novel feed resource exploitation and nutrition-mediated emission reduction mechanisms. In contrast to conventional single-dimensional investigations, this issue establishes a holistic research framework that integrates nutritional intervention, physiological homeostasis, efficient production and ecological sustainability. The existing poultry nutrition literature largely emphasizes individual production traits while ignoring the intrinsic correlations between gut microecological balance, metabolic health and environmental impacts. In this context, the present Special Issue fills critical research gaps and complements current theoretical systems by constructing a systematic research paradigm. It provides updated theoretical foundations and practical technical solutions for green poultry production, promotes interdisciplinary innovation and global academic exchange and facilitates international collaborative research to accelerate the green and sustainable transformation of modern intensive poultry industries worldwide.

Dr. Hongzhi Wu
Dr. Sanjun Jin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • poultry nutrition
  • nutritional regulation
  • poultry health
  • production efficiency
  • low-carbon sustainable farming

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Effects of Coated Sodium Butyrate on Growth Performance and Intestinal Morphology and Microbiota of White King Pigeon at Weaning Transition
by Zhen Liu, Ying Bao, Tiantian Gu, Li Chen, Tao Zeng, Lizhi Lu and Zhizhong Lin
Vet. Sci. 2026, 13(8), 744; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci13080744 - 27 Jul 2026
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The current study aims to assess the effects of coated sodium butyrate (CSB) on the weaning transition of White King pigeons. A total of 336 1-month-old White King pigeons were assigned randomly to four groups, including the Control group fed basal health sandand [...] Read more.
The current study aims to assess the effects of coated sodium butyrate (CSB) on the weaning transition of White King pigeons. A total of 336 1-month-old White King pigeons were assigned randomly to four groups, including the Control group fed basal health sandand without CSB and test groups fed the basal health sand with 0.1%, 0.2%, and 0.4% CSB, respectively. The results showed that, compared with the Control group, the average daily feed intake (ADFI) was significantly increased in the 0.1% and 0.2% CSB groups (p < 0.05). The 0.1% CSB group exhibited a higher immune organ index (IOI) than the Control group (p < 0.05). The total protein (TP) and albumin (ALB) levels in the 0.1% CSB and 0.4% CSB groups significantly increased compared with the Control group (p < 0.05). In contrast, the 0.2% CSB group exhibited lower serum ALB, TP, and total cholesterol (TC) levels; TNF-α and IL-6 concentrations were reduced compared with the other groups (p < 0.05), and the 0.4% CSB group showed significantly increased serum TNF-α, IL-6, and D-lactic acid levels (p < 0.05). The ratio of villus height to crypt depth (VH/CD) of the jejunum (p < 0.05) was significantly increased in the 0.2% CSB group. In addition, the CD and VH/CD of the ileum were significantly increased in the 0.1% CSB group (p < 0.05). Firmicutes was the predominant phylum across all treatment groups, while Bacteroidota showed a more sensitive response to CSB supplementation. The 0.1% CSB group showed a significant enrichment of Oscillospiraceae and Muribaculaceae, fiber-fermenting, SCFA-producing taxa, Enterobacterales and Klebsiella, suggesting CSB-mediated alterations in luminal oxygen tension that favor the coexistence of facultative and obligate anaerobic taxa. Collectively, these data revealed that CSB supplementation efficiently improves growth performance and intestinal health of weaning pigeons by ameliorating the intestinal environment. Full article
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