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Research Overview of Milk Urea Nitrogen

YANG Lu, XIONG Ben-hai   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2011-05-13 Online:2012-08-20 Published:2012-08-24

Abstract: Milk urea nitrogen (MUN) is the concentration of urea nitrogen in milk which is an major indicator meaning efficiency of utilization of dietary crude protein .Thus measuring and using MUN is a way to evaluate whether the diet formulation is suitable or not and whether the feeding program is reasonable or not. This paper reviewed the generation mechanism of MUN, the monitoring methods and its affected factors. It also analysed some current problems and predicted its future development. In a word, it is quite useful for the application of MUN to predict ruminant nutrient requirements and scientific diet formulation.

Key words: milk urea nitrogen; dairy; protein; efficiency

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