Transcript Enhancing Ruminant Production Through Nutritional Manipulation

GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
Institute of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology,
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
50 years down the road towards success
• with the inception of the UAF in 1961
• Department of Nutrition was established in
the Faculty of Animal Husbandry
• It was renamed in 1983 to Department of
Animal Nutrition
• In 2004, it attained the status of Institute of
Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology
Pioneer in the field of animal nutrition, feed
technology, teaching and research
•Has four division:
• Ruminant Nutrition
• Non-ruminant nutrition
• Animal Feed Technology
• Nutritional biotechnology
Mission
To play pivotal role in food security and
capacity building of livestock farmers for
improved livestock productivity to enable
them to compete in the international market
for supply of livestock products
AIM
To enhance milk, meat and egg production,
foreign exchange earnings, socio economic
status and resource management to combat
changing global scenario.
To improve nutritional status of community
through cost effective meat
and milk
production
Through
• Understanding nutritional needs of different
domestic animals at various physiological stages
• Nutrient modeling for milk, meat and egg
production
• Role of various synthetic bio-molecules/ non-feed
additives in animal feeds
• Fodder development, conservation and storage.
• Judicious use of non-conventional feed resources
and
• Technological developments in animal feed milling
industry
Faculty Position
Professor
Two
Associate professor
Three
Assistant Professor
Four
Subject specialist
Two
Research Labs
• Postgraduate Lab-I
• Postgraduate lab-II
• Undergraduate Lab
• Biotechnology Lab
Farm facilities
• Buffalo and Cattle Sheds
• Fistulated Bulls
• Poultry sheds
• Pilot Feed Plants (Livestock and
Poultry)
Manpower produced
PhD
: 45
M.Sc.(Hons):
417
Research publications: (2008-2010)
Research papers (refereed)
: 52
National
: 22
Abstract (International)
: 32
Books
: 13
Oral presentations in Foreign Conf. : 17
Current enrollment:
PhD: 4
M.Sc.(Hons) : 47
Research Focus
• Improvement of the nutritive value of low quality
feedstuffs
• Nutritional evaluation of local forages, crop
residues and non-conventional feed stuffs.
• Efficient and cost effective formula feeds for
livestock and poultry
• Detoxification of naturally occurring toxins and
anti-nutritional factors in feeds
• Production of single cell protein and feed enzymes
through fermentation
• Recycling of animal excreta for ruminants
Achievements in Applied Research
• Enzose, Corn Steep liquor and corn cobs: reduced
feeding cost at sustainable productivity
• Increased fixation of urea with straws with the
help of organic acids
• Animal excreta can substitute a portion of the
ration with dung treated straws
• Silage additives
• Dietary cation anion balance: Can reduce the
incidence of milk fever and seasonality in buffalo
breeding
• Improving the efficiency of broilers through
amino acid balancing and reduced N emission.
• Establishment of metabolizable energy values of
indigenous feeds for poultry rations
• Use of distillery yeast sludge/corn steep liquor
and enzose in poultry ration
Research Projects Completed (11) since 1994
1. Evaluation of crops, crop residues and feed by
products by using different techniques in buffalo
and cow calves
2. Usage of wet corn gluten feed by lactating
buffaloes
3. Evaluation of Mott grass with or
supplemental legume in buffalo calves
without
4. Influence of bypass fat (Berga fat (R)) on milk yield
and its composition in early lactating cows
5. Influence of Enzose on nitrogen fixation in urea
treated corncobs and performance of crossbred
cows
6. Nitrogen fixation and digestion kinetics of urea
treated wheat straw with varying levels of corn
steep liquor in buffaloes
7. Silage making of high yielding fodder crops using
varying levels of different additives and ensiling
time (Rs. 3.0 Million)
8. Influence of altering dietary cation anion
difference on growth performance, age of maturity,
reproductive efficiency and milk yield in buffalo
(Rs. 5.23 million)
9. Enhancing the nutritional worth of low quality
crop residues through chemical and biological
treatments and its performance of buffaloes
(Rs. 3.0 millions)
10. Comparison of milk vs milk replacer with fodder
or concentrates fed ad libitum on growth and
health in Sahiwal calves during weaning period
11. Effects of pre-weaning treatments on postweaning growth performance of Sahiwal calves
On going research projects (10):
1. Response of broilers to ideal amino acid ratio (Rs.1.93
millions)
2. Use of sodium bicarbonate for optimum weight gain of
growing buffalo calves and male goats (Rs. 2.09
million, Endowment Fund, UAF)
3. Economic feasibility of raising Lohi sheep and Beetal
goats for meat production under high input system
(Rs. 2.8 million, HEC)
4. Low cost technologies for enhanced ruminant animal
productivity (Rs. 1.58 million, Endowment Fund, UAF)
5. Nutritional evaluation of enzose and corn steep liquor
for meat and milk animals (Rs. 2.97 million, HEC)
6. On farm demonstration of technologies for
accelerated growth of calves and weaners for
reducing the age at first calving of replacement
dairy heifers (Rs. 1.3 million, Endowment Fund,
UAF)
7. Potential of Sahiwal cow calves for veal
production under different dietary programs
(Sponsored by L&DD department)
8. Escalating the feeding value of wheat straw
through ensiling with rumen digesta as an
inoculant in ruminant animals (Rs. 3.95 million,
PSF)
9. Improving rumen dynamics through dietary
manipulation for optimum meat crop in sheep and
goat (Rs. 2.79 million, HEC)
10. Budgeting dietary protein and carbohydrate
fractions: A practical nutritional approach to
escalate rumen dynamics for maximizing productive
potential of dairy beetal goats (Rs.3.47 million, PSF)
THANKS