Please provide the species name and appropriate details from below relating to the topic you have chosen; see questions nested under suggested topics listed below:
Societal issues (e.g., animal welfare or environmental impacts):
How nutrition can impact animal welfare (ex. how feeding beta agonists can affect swine or cattle welfare, how the use of functional foods/ingredients in the diets of companion or livestock animals can improve their welfare)
How nutrition can reduce the impact of the animal industry on the environment (the impacts on soil, water or air)
Nutrition for improving the quality of animal products:
Nutritional strategies for improving leanness, marbling, tenderness, flavor, etc.
Nutritional strategies in animals that can lead to the production of functional foods for human (e.g., Omega 3 products).
Wildlife nutrition
Wildlife nutrition during drought (for one specific species, e.g., deer, buffalos, bighorn, etc.)
Techniques for estimating the nutrient requirements of wild animals (in captivity or free-ranging)
Current approaches used to evaluate the nutritional status of wild animals.
Explain how we can improve the nutrition of free-ranging wild animals.
Science-based topics
Use of feed additives in livestock, avian and wild animal nutrition
Use of net energy system for animals (e.g., use of net energy systems for companion animals)
Feed quality assessment
bioavailability of nutrients
anti-nutritional factors
nutrient imbalance
feed processing
Nutritional immunology
Protein and amino acid nutrition during disease
Nutrient requirements during disease
Nutritional strategies to mitigate the negative effect of disease on animal productivity and welfare
Open to anything creative but relevant.
Animal nutrition as a model for human nutrition.
Nutrition during the transport of animals.
Your initial post should contain a brief description of the specifics of the topic youve chosen, including the relevant species and details listed above. Also be sure to make a case for why you think this topic is important, as well as any questions that you have regarding the assignment, your topic or the species that youve chosen.
When making your case for topic importance, you should consider the following example.
Example topic: Using animal nutrition as a tool to minimize the impact of the animal industry on the environment.
Questions to address:
Upon which species of farm animal will you focus (eg. broilers, layers, growing/finishing pigs, dairy cattle, etc.)?
Which aspects of environmental impact will you address (eg., air, soil, water)?
Which specific pollutant are you going to focus on (eg. nitrogen, phosphorous, carbon footprint, etc.)?
Why are the selected species and pollutants important?
How can nutrition be used to mitigate or alleviate negative environmental impacts?
Its okay if you dont yet know all of the answers to the questions. But you should at least be able to come up with the important questions to address and write out a plan for how you will find the answers.
