水牛营养研究新进展

New Reasearch Progress on Buffalo Nutrition

水牛在中国南方农业产业结构中占有非常重要的地位,大部分水牛都属于沼泽型水牛,长期以来作为役用家畜在广大农村分散饲养。随着中国农业机械化程度的提高,水牛在农村扮演劳役的角色逐渐发生了改变,水牛将由单一的役用向乳用和乳肉兼用方向发展。文章从水牛营养需要、饲料资源开发与利用、水牛瘤胃微生物与瘤胃发酵、水牛营养与繁殖,以及水牛乳、肉品质的营养调控等方面对近20年来水牛营养方面的研究进展进行了综述。

Buffalo played an important role in the agricultural industry of southern of China. All most of buffaloes in China classified to swamp buffalo and employed as a draft power in rural. With the development of mechanical industry,the usage of buffalo was transferred from draught animals to meat and milk animals. The author reviewed the advance of buffalo nutrition in the past 20 years from nutritional requirement,feedstuff utilization,ruminal microorganism and fermentation,nutrition and reproduction and nutritional regulation of milk and meat of buffaloes.