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What is Nutrition?
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Animals eat to supply the tissues with the nutrients required to fuel physiological processes of maintenance, growth, fat deposition, lactation and work.
A common definition of nutrition is:
"The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues".
A textbook definition may be more like:
Nutrition involves various chemical and physiological activities which transform food elements into body elements.
Nutrition can also be seen as the science which interprets the relationships of food material to the functioning living organism.
The question of nutrition is fundamental to keeping livestock. Livestock farmers need to understand that the provision of an adequate diet and nutrition for their livestock may be a combination of naturally sourced food material and supplementary feed of some sort.
Click here to view a video that explains nutrition in animals.
Click here to view a video that explains animal nutrition.