Nutritional aspects of ecologically relevant phytochemicals in ruminant production

LO Tedeschi, JP Muir, HD Naumann… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review provides an update of ecologically relevant phytochemicals for ruminant
production, focusing on their contribution to advancing nutrition. Phytochemicals embody a …

Effects of nutritional factors on fat content, fatty acid composition, and sensorial properties of meat and milk from domesticated ruminants: an overview

EN Ponnampalam, H Priyashantha, JK Vidanarachchi… - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Nutritional interventions in ruminant livestock management is an essential
step to achieving high quality meat and milk products for diversified and competitive global …

[HTML][HTML] Condensed tannins fed to dairy goats: effects on digestibility, milk production, blood parameters, methane emission, and energy and nitrogen balances

M Battelli, S Colombini, GM Crovetto, G Galassi… - Journal of Dairy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Condensed tannins (CT) are plant polyphenols that can affect feed digestibility and are
potentially able to reduce enteric CH 4 emissions in ruminants. In this in vivo trial with 8 …

Inversion of a paradigm: The positive roles of plant phenolics in dairy goat nutrition

SY Landau, O Hadaya, H Muklada… - Small Ruminant …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paradigm prevailing in the nineties, based on studies with goats fed tannin-rich browse
as sole feed, was that dietary tannins are associated with impaired feed intake, increased …

[PDF][PDF] Are livestock always bad for the planet? Rethinking the protein transition and climate change debate

E Houzer, I Scoones - 2021 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Urgent climate challenges have triggered calls for radical, widespread changes in what we
eat, pushing for the drastic reduction if not elimination of animal-source foods from our diets …

Of browse, goats, and men: Contribution to the debate on animal traditions and cultures

SY Landau, FD Provenza - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Much circumstantial evidence has accumulated for ape culture, based on observations of
the transfer of adult expertise to novices, typically juveniles. Controlled experiments have …

Ruminant meat production and quality enhancement, nematode suppression and greenhouse gas emission mitigation: A sustainable paradigm for valorisation of …

T Uushona, OC Chikwanha, CLF Katiyatiya… - Animal Feed Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rising global demand for meat coupled with increased losses and wastes in the meat
supply chain, consumer sophistication and climate change has prompted the search for …

Tannic acid reduced apparent protein digestibility and induced oxidative stress and inflammatory response without altering growth performance and ruminal …

Z Wang, L Yin, L Liu, X Lan, J He, F Wan… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The present study was performed to evaluate the impacts of tannic acid (TA)
supplementation at different levels on the growth performance, physiological, oxidative and …

Are livestock always bad for the planet

E Houzer, I Scoones - … the protein transition and climate change …, 2021 - opendocs.ids.ac.uk
Urgent climate challenges have triggered calls for radical, widespread changes in what we
eat, pushing for the drastic reduction if not elimination of animal-source foods from our diets …

Are there phylogenetic differences in salivary tannin‐binding proteins between browsers and grazers, and ruminants and hindgut fermenters?

D Ward, MH Schmitt, AM Shrader - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While feeding, mammalian browsers (primarily eat woody plants) encounter secondary
metabolites such as tannins. Browsers may bind these tannins using salivary proteins …