Early life nutrition to improve feed efficiency in commercial dairy goats

生命早期营养可提高商业奶山羊的饲料效率

• 批准号: LP220100426
• 负责人: Dr Kristy DiGiacomo
• 金额: $ 37.12万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP220100426
• 关键词: Early; life; nutrition; improve; feed

This project aims to improve the productivity and welfare and reduce resource waste in commercial dairy goat kids. The Australian dairy goat industry is expanding (~20% per annum) yet there is little research to overcome hurdles to improving milk and meat production. There is also increased societal pressure to improve sustainability, reduce waste and maintain animal welfare. By investigating nutritional methods to improve productivity of male (for meat) and female (for milk) kids, this project will generate new knowledge relevant to Australian and international goat production systems. This project will assist goat producers to make decisions that maximise animal productivity with flow on benefits to manufacturers of goat products.

该项目旨在提高商品奶山羊的生产力和福利，减少资源浪费。澳大利亚奶山羊产业正在扩大（每年约20%），但几乎没有研究来克服提高牛奶和肉类产量的障碍。此外，提高可持续性、减少浪费和维护动物福利的社会压力也越来越大。通过研究提高公山羊（产肉）和母山羊（产奶）生产力的营养方法，该项目将产生与澳大利亚和国际山羊生产系统相关的新知识。该项目将帮助山羊生产者做出决策，最大限度地提高动物生产力，并为山羊产品制造商带来利益。