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Course code: BHS10040f17Semester: 2017/2018 summer
Name: Small Ruminants Husbandry (II)
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Piotr Nowakowski
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students
Learning outcomes: After course completion In area of knowledge: 1. Student has a widened knowledge (with respect to the basic course) of small ruminants specific species in the global perspective. 2. Student knows biology of small ruminants species, which play global or niche role in animal production is gained (sheep – including hair sheep, goats, fallow deer and elk, camelids of a new world). 3. Student knows various systems of production used in the world. In area of skills: 1. Student knows basic methods of small ruminants husbandry. 2. Student is able to compare biology and economic efficiency of small ruminants production systems to others in a broad perspective (not curtailed to only 1 region or a country).
Competences: 1. Student understands the effects of keeping small ruminants in the environment. 2. Student is prepared to organize and recommend sustainable production systems of small ruminants.
Prerequisites: -
Course content: he importance of goats to humans – domestication, goat breeds and their milk, meat, wool and reproduction performance, goats nutrition, breeding and housing; small ruminants specific species biology (sheep – including hair sheep, goats, fallow deer and elk, camelids of a new world); behavioral traits as a result of interaction species/breed – environment; forage resources and systems of small ruminants feeding in the world; services of small ruminants to the environment – landscape conservation; systems of production in the Southern and Northern hemisphere; estimation of biological efficiency of small ruminants systems of production as well as technical and economic indices calculation.
Recommended literature: 1. Lasota-Moskalewska A. (2005) Zwierzęta udomowione w dziejach ludzkości. WUW, Warszawa; 2. Nowicki B., Jasek S., Maciejowski J., Nowakowski P., Pawlina E. (2011) Rasy zwierząt gospodarskich. Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa; 3. Przegląd Hodowlany (miesięcznik). 4. Wójtowski J. (red) (2013) Hodowla, chów i użytkowanie kóz. Wyd. UP w Poznaniu 5. Szulc T. (red) (2016) Hodowla zwierząt. Wydawnictwo UP we Wrocławiu
Assessment methods: Student pass the course (grade as an arithmetic mean) based on grades from short written tests, project, oral presentations and discussions.
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