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RumenStability and early life
intervention under discussion
in New Zealand
David is working with Dr. Stefan Muetzel
at the Nutrition and Health research group
on the potential of nutritional interventions
applied in early life of ruminants to program
the rumen microbial ecosystem for low
methane emissions in the adult animal.
The recent studies published by David’s
team (Yáñez-Ruiz et al., 2010, Abecia et
al., 2013, 2014) show that manipulating
Dr Stefan Muetzel and Dr David Yáñez-Ruiz, in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
the feeding management early in life
would indeed promote different microbial
populations establishing in the rumen of the
young animal. David will present his latest
results on Early-Life Programming and will
work with AgResearch scientists to gain
understanding of the processes occurring
in the early life of the animal in relation
to rumen development, immune system,
metabolic profile and microbial colonization.
A workshop gathering scientists from
AgResearch and Massey University will be
held to evaluate the mitigation potential
of such a strategy and to identify gaps of
knowledge for future research studies.
David R. Yáñez-Ruiz, senior scientist at the Animal Nutrition Institute (CSIC, Granada, Spain), is
visiting AgResearch (Palmerston North, New Zealand) funded through a GRASS Award, offered by the
New Zealand Government in support of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.