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Course code: VVSS00334f13Semester: 2013/2014 winter
Name: Supervision of reproduction in dairy and beef cattle herds
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 11
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 12 / 18 / 0
Lecturer: Dr wet. Grzegorz Jakub Dejneka
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student: identifies factors which interfere with herd’s fertility and is able to estimate the risck of these factors for cows and heifers, shows the most important points in supervision of animal reprodution in herd, defines symptoms of infertility in herd and single animal, proposes and plans diagnostic tests to control reproduction of the herd, investigates etiology of reproduction disorders in herd and establishes kinds and doses of medicamentes, performs diagnostic investigations to estimate state of reproduction of the herd and single animal and creates schedule of treatment of reproduction disorders, is able to supervise reproduction of the herd and adapt way of supervision to customize of the herd.
Competences: -Student is able to critically evaluate their own and others' actions and propose a solution for the creation of a strategy for control of reproduction in dairy and beef herds -Is able to operate under the uncentainty and stress. -Is able to organize work team.
Prerequisites: anatomy, pathology, phisiology, phisiopathology, parasitology, farmacology, microbiology, immunology, diagnostics, diseases of farm animals - reproduction
Course content: Control of reproduction in the herd of cows, systemic solutions to improve fertility of the herd.
Recommended literature: 1.Arthur’s Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics. D. Noakes, T. Parkinson, G. England, 2001 2.Bovine medicine: diseases and husbandary of cattle. A.H.Andrews, 2004. 3.Current therapy in large animal theriogenology 2, R. S.Youngquist , W. R. Threlfall, 2007 4.Diseases of Dairy Cattle. Red. Divers T.J., Peek S.F. 2011. 5.Andrews A.H., Blowey R.W., Boyd H., Eddy R.G. Bovine Medicine. Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle. Blackwell, Oxford 2004
Assessment methods: Oral test
Comment: This subject will be held for group of at least 18 students