KAPOSVÁR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE Hungary Department of Animal Nutrition

KAPOSVÁR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE Hungary Department of Animal Nutrition Head of department: Prof. Dr. L. Babinszky H-7401 Kaposvár, P.O. Box 16. Phone: 36-82-412-285 Fax: 36-82-313-562 E-mail: babinszky.laszlo@ke.hu

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION STAFF Scientists 8 Technical assistants 3 Others 4 Total 15

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION STUFF Dr. K. Németh T. Gura B. Csobolyó O. Ulbert Z. Garbacz Dr. R. Tóthi Dr. Cs. Szabó P. Molnár I. Rábai I. Völgyi R. Kovács E. Antal Dr. R. Pósa E. Magyar Prof. Dr. L. Babinszky Dr. V. Halas Dr. J. Tossenberger

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION Animal house • Number • Experiments of animals • Conventional digestibility studies • (faecal digestibility of nutries) • 1.1 Growing and fattening pigs 24 • 1.2 Pregnant sows 16 • 1.3 Weaned piglets 24 • 1.4 Sheep 18 • 1.5 Rabbits 36 • 1.6 Poultry 36

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION Animal house (continued) 2. Ileal digestibility of nutrients (using cannulated animals) 2.1 Growing and fattening pigs 24 2.2 Weaned piglets 24 2.3 Poultry (rooster, layer, turkey, goose) 36 3. Ruminal fermentation and digestibility of nutrients in different parts of the intestinal tract (using cannulated animals) 3.1 Sheep 12 3.2 Dairy cow 6

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION Animal house (continued) 4. Model broiler performance test 1200 (individual weighing) 5. Model turkey performance test 480 (individual weighing) 6. Layer 240 7. Nutritional immunology studies with rats 120

RE-ENTRANT CANNULATION TECHNIQUE IN PIGS Abdominal wall Ileum Caecum Colon

SINGLE T-CANNULATION TECHNIQUE IN PIGS Abdominal wall Ileum Caecum Colon

PVTC CANNULATION TECHNIQUE IN PIGS Colon Caecum

FACEAL DIGESTIBILITY (Cannulated {Colostomised} bird) Caecum Cannula Urether Ileum Cloaca Colon

ILEAL DIGESTIBILITY (Cannulated bird) Caecum Urether Cannula Colon Ileum Cloaca

THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) IN ANIMAL NUTRITION RESEARCH

CT SCANNING OF PIG

CROSS-SECTIONAL CT IMAGE OF A PIG TAKEN AT THE LOIN m. longissimus dorsi Backfat Skin Backbone intestines

THE ACCURACY OF PROTEIN AND FAT CONTENT PREDICTION IN 105 KG PIGS USING CT MEASURED TISSUE VOLUMES Y= 3478 + 0.25*Vm RMSE=633 R2=0.79 where: Y : protein content of empty body, g Vm : volume of muscle tissue, cm3 Y= 2477 + 0.82*Vf RMSE=1029 R2=0.97 where: Y : fat content of empty body, g Vf : volume of fatty tissue, cm3

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION SOME IMPORTANT RESEARCH PROJECTS Carried out at the Department of Animal Nutrition • Pig nutrition • Development of a new in vivo (computer tomograph) measuring method top improve lean meat production and protein deposition in pigs (collaboration with Institute of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology at University of Kaposvár) • Amino acid requirement of growing pigs as determined by the measurement of ileal digestibility of amino acids

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL NUTRITION (continued) • Alternatives to antibiotics (probiotics, oligosaccharides, organic acids, exogenous enzymes, plant extracts, a.s.o.) • Investigation of phosphorus metabolism of weaned piglets in aspect of rearing intensity • Mathematical modelling of growth in pigs

KAPOSVÁR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE Hungary Department of Animal Nutrition