2. •Hafiz Muhamamd Waheed
•Tanveer Ahmad
Ph.D., Post-Doc. (Canada)
– Office: Lab # 2
– Faculty of Vet. & Animal Sciences
–Phone # Sorry! (No office phone)
–E-mail: tanveer.ahmad@uaar.edu.pk
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3. A multi-cellular organism
Plants vs Animals
Kingdom: Animalia
Capacity for locomotion
Non-photosynthetic metabolism
Pronounced response to stimuli
Restricted growth
Fixed bodily structure
Animal?
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4. Taking in and utilization of food
Body’s handling of nutrients
Integration of many scientific
disciplines
What is Nutrition?
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5. Nourishment of body properly, that is, supply of
adequate amount of nutrients for living, growing,
reproduction and performing all of the bodily
functions.
Nutrition involves various chemical and
physiological activities which transform food
elements into body elements.
Chemistry/Biochemistry, Physiology, Microbiology,
Endocrinology, Biotechnology, Agronomy, etc.
What is Nutrition?
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6. • Scope of AN
• Development of Sci. of Nutr.
– Eras of development (8 Eras)
• Naturalistic Era
• Chemical-Energy Era
• Mineral Era
• Vitamin-Biological Era
• Feeding Standard Era
• Amino acid Era
• Feed Additive and Implant Era
• Biotechnology Era
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7. • AN Terminology
• Soil –Plant and Animal Relationship
• Feed & Body Composition
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9. • Local feedstuffs
– Identification
– Classification
– Nutritional characteristics
• Sampling techniques
• Processing of feed samples for analyses
• Proximate analysis of feed
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Lab Topics
10. • Comparative Study of monogastric &
ruminants digestive tracts
• Feed ingredient project
– Brief overview of individual feedstuffs used
in rations
– In-class presentations (5 minutes)
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Lab Topics
11. • Sarwar, M. and Zia-ul-Hasan, 2000. Nutrient Metabolism in Ruminants. University
of Agriculture Press, Faisalabad.
• Parry, T. W., A. E. Cullison and R. S. Lowrey. 2004. Feeds and Feeding. 6th Ed.
Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.
• McDonald, P., R.A. Edwards and I.F.D. Greenhalgh, C.A. Morgan. 2002. Animal
Nutrition. 6th ed. Longman Scientific and Technical, England.
• Shah, S.I., 1994. Animal Husbandry National Book Foundation, Islamabad.
• Church, D.C. and W.G. Pond, 1995. Basic Animal Nutrition and Feeding. John Willy
and Sons, New York, USA.
• Summers and Leeson – Commercial Poultry Nutrition.
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Books Recommended
