Bulletin No 3966 - Vitamin A and animal health

Authors

J. Johnson, Western Australian Department of Agriculture

Files

Publication Date

1-1976

Series Number

Bulletin 3966

Abstract

Vitamin A is one of the essential vitamins for animal health. Grazing animals obtain their vitamin A requirements mostly from the carotene in green feed. This carotene is converted to Vitamin A in the intestinal wall and is passed to the liver and to a less extent the kidneys for storage. Some carotene also passes direct to the liver where it is stored before it is converted to vitamin A.

When dry pastures, hay and grains (except maize) are low in carotene content this ability of the animals to store vitamin A means that they usually have enough when there is none in the diet.

Number of Pages

4

Publisher

Western Australian Department of Agriculture

City

Perth

Keywords

Vitamin A, Animals, Animal health, Western Australia

Disciplines

Agricultural Education | Agricultural Science | Animal Diseases | Animal Sciences | Beef Science | Dairy Science | Food Chemistry | Sheep and Goat Science

Recommended Citation

Johnson, J. (1976), Bulletin No 3966 - Vitamin A and animal health. Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Perth. Bulletin Bulletin 3966.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/bulletins3/28

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