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Animal Nutrition

Submit your research

Author guidelines

Editor guidelines

Peer review

Publishing fees

Journal notices

Sponsorship opportunities for 2026 Animal Science conferences and symposia

Call for papers: Transportation of Livestock Species

Host a Research Topic with Frontiers in Animal Science

Proud sponsor of the 4th International Precision Dairy Farming Conference

Frontiers FAIR² now open!

Editors

david l harmon

ousama alzahal

sonia andrés

uchenna anele

Articles

Effects of supplementing fermented water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) meal in hy-Line brown hens on oviduct morphometric characteristics, internal egg quality and shelf life

Effect of substrate dispersion method and particle size on in vitro digestibility, gas production kinetics and composition, and fermentation characteristics in different feed types

Influence of oilseed (Camelina sativa and Linum usitatissimus) cakes and insect (Tenebrio molitor) meal on immune gene expression, microbiota composition and gut morphology in broiler chickens

Enzyme supplementation in nutritionally reduced diets for piglets in the early-nursery phase

Research Topics

Women in Animal Science

Unconventional Feed Resources: Impact on Animal Productivity, Health, and the Environment

Developmental and Early-Life Programming in Ruminants: Nutritional, Metabolic, Epigenetic, and Phenotypic Perspectives

Tracing Forage Evolution in Dairy Calf Diets: From Tradition to Innovation