Department of Animal Nutrition and Management

The Department conducts research and teaching about nutrition and management of several animal species such as cattle, pigs, poultry, reindeer, fish, horses and dogs.

The goal with this project is to make it possible for Swedish dairy farms to replace imported, soy based protein feed with on farm processed concentrate based on home-grown or regionally grown

The aim of the project is to provide solutions for using unprocessed or nutritionally upgraded forest by-products as ruminant feed during forage shortage crises. The 2018 dry spell in Sweden

Dissertation: Adjusted Dry Period Length in dairy cows -effects on milk yield, health and fertility fun-vh@slu.se Elisabeth Andrée O´Hara defends her thesis "Adjusted Dry Period Length in dairy

Dissertation: Adjusted Dry Period Length in dairy cows -effects on milk yield, health and fertility fun-vh@slu.se Elisabeth Andrée O´Hara defends her thesis "Adjusted Dry Period Length in dairy

On June 13 Sorphea Sen defended her doctoral thesis "Evaluation on brewery yeast and insect meal (black soldier fly and cricket meal) to replace trash fish in the diet for Asian seabass ( Lates

PhD student at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management. Working in the Project "Individually adapted lactations lengths" (INDILACT). The aim of the project is to develop tools which can

In the project Stunning of warm-water fish at killing and slaughtering, SLU researcher Albin Gräns will work on facilitating the farming of 'warm-water' fish species (e.g. Nile tilapia and African

On June 13 Sorphea Sen defended her doctoral thesis "Evaluation on brewery yeast and insect meal (black soldier fly and cricket meal) to replace trash fish in the diet for Asian seabass ( Lates

The purpose with this project is to contribute to food security through sustainable Tilapia production in Rwanda with locally available resources. Aquaculture is recent in Rwanda dates 1950s, fish

Wild salmonids such as trout and other fish naturally feed on insect throughout their lives. Short description In 2017, EU officially approved the use of insects as a feed ingredient in feed for

The main objective of the current application is to apply for seed money to write a research proposal focusing on developing a sustainable aquaponics system including feed based on black soldier fly