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FLI - Institute of animal nutrition (FLI-ITE)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The professional discipline Animal Nutrition, consisting of Nutritional Physiology, Feed Science and Animal Feeding, deals with the effective conversion of feedstuff components into high quality foods of animal origin and other animal products with special consideration of the ecological and economic aspects as well as a focus on animal health.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute - Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI)
Coordinated projects
- Breeding and agronomy of novel, low-vicine faba beans and adoption as domestic protein feed
- Collaborative project: Evaluation of welfare in dairy cattle - indicators for metabolism and feeding - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Improvement of dairy farming by breeding strategies for feed intake, metabolism, and environmental sustainability under conditions of optimized feeding intensity and utilization of metabolism indicators and sensors in herd management - subproject 10
- Collaborative project: Looking forward – climate-smart approaches utilizing regional side-streams and innovative feed technology on yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) as feedstuff for non-ruminants - subproject A
- Collaborative project: Mitigation of methane emissions by supplementation of 3-Nitrooxypropanol and variation of dietary concentrate proportions in dairy cow rations. Subproject 1
- Coloured blooming winter peas in pig feed under the conditions of organic farming and studies on the use of a hydrothermally treated mixture of local legumes in organic pig farming
- Customized highly selective biocatalysts to detoxify the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol in animal feed
- Development and implementation of sustainable strategies to improve food-safety and retain nutritional values by reducing fungal infestation and aflatoxin contamination in the food-chain in Sub-Sahara Africa, focused on Kenya. Subproject 3: Analysis of aflatoxin biomarkers and characterization of the health status of dairy cows
- Impacts of climate change on the feed value of selected plants and feed intake, performance and physiological parameters of dairy cows and beef cattle
- Improvement of protein and energy supply in ruminants and monogastric animals by mixed cropping of maize with runner or scarlet runner beans
- Molecular mechanisms of toxicity of deoxynivalenol (DON) in pigs
- Preliminary test to determine the effect of concentrate proportion in the ration of dairy cows in the presence or absence of Fusarium toxin-contaminated triticale on the carry-over of DON and de-epoxy-DON as well as yield and health
- Seaweeds and seaweed-ingredients to reduce emissions from pasture-based sheep, cattle and dairy cows
- Studies on ruminal turnover and supply of dairy cows with B-vitamins
- Studies on the effect of CLA on digestive physiology, milk production, composition and the energy and nutrient utilization in dairy cows
- Studies on the transfer of pyrrolizidine alkaloids into livestock
- Treated grains of common vetches (Vicia sativa L.) as protein feed for monogastric farm animals in organic agriculture, Subproject fattening pigs
Coordinated collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Development of antimicrobial resistance in Enterococci from cattle by prophylactic use of Monensin in cows in the transition period
- Effects of slatted floor with rubber mats combined with different abrasive areas (PEDIKURA) on claw health and integument injuries of fattening bulls
- Emission measurements of volatile organic components (VOK) from animal husbandry
- Further development, update und quality management of online-database 'KLIMAPS JKI' with important facts of the consequences of climate change on plant protection. (KLIMAPS)
- Innovative and practical management approaches to reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants (REDNEX)
- Interactions of deoxynivalenol and lipopolysaccharides on protein turnover and the immune system of pigs
- Mitochondrial functionality in dairy cows
- Recombinant E. coli Shiga toxoids as broadly cross-protective vaccines to reduce STEC/EHEC shedding and transmission dynamics in cattle herds
- Reduce dangerous alkaloids in the food chain through the improvement of breeding resistance ergot of rye
- The benefit of a legume-mix (faba beans, peas, lupines) which has been conditioned by hydrothermical treatment in pig-feeding
Contact
FLI - Institute of animal nutrition
(FLI-ITE)
Bundesallee 37
38116 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)531 58044-102
Fax: +49 (0)531 58044-299
Email: britta.immenroth(@)fli.de