Tag: Animal nutrition

Animal nutrition focuses on the dietary nutrients needs of animals, especially those in agriculture and food production, but can include those in zoos, aquariums, and wildlife management. There are seven major classes of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, fibre, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water

Animals eat to grow, repair etc. They simply eat to live. In this unit we will study how animals make use of what they eat.

Animal nutrition focuses on the dietary nutrients needs of animals, especially those in agriculture and food production, but can include those in zoos, aquariums, and wildlife management. There are seven major classes of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, fibre, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water

Most of the Zimbabwean farmers keep ruminant animals at their farms for meat production and milk from dairy cows. Ruminant animals reproduce sexually and this require a farmer to have a full understanding of the reproductive system of both a cow and a bull for easy management of the animal.