Project

Nutritional optimisation in companion animals

Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/607
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Veterinary nutrition
Keywords
cat horse obesity GI health sustainability dog nutrition
 
Project description

The project will focus on optimising the nutrition of dogs, cats and horses and includes 3 research themes:

1) nutrition and energy metabolism including research into the role of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of obesity

2) nutrition and gastrointestinal health with, among other things, research into the role of nutrition in, for example, the gut-brain axis

3) Sustainability with, among other things, research into the use of insects in pet food.