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Course code: VVSS00065o10Semester: 2010/2011 summer
Name: Fur-covered animals’
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 10 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr Tomasz Piasecki
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: During the course student gets a theoretical knowledge and practical skills permitting to prepare prophylaxis programs and to treatment fur-coverd animals (breeding and husbandry). At the end of the course the student will gain knowledge of breeding fur-covered animals; will be able to do clinical and anatomopathological examination and take material for laboratory testing; will know rules of therapy and be able to use them in individual cases.
Competences: Passing the course permits working with fur-covered animals on farms or in animals’ hospitals.
Prerequisites: Veterinary Diagnostic Techniques, Veterinary Microbiology, Veterinary Virusology, Pharmacology
Course content: Biology and breeding of fur-covered animals (foxes, minks, ferrets, rabbits, chinchillas). Diseases of fur-covered animals, rules of therapy, prophylaxis programs’ for each species, techniques of clinical examination, taking samples for laboratory testing and administering drugs. Specifics of antibiotic therapy in herbivorous fur-covered animals.
Recommended literature: Harcourt-Brown F. : Textbook of Rabbit Medicine, 2004. Jarosz S.: Hodowla zwierząt futerkowych” 1993. Lisiecki H., Sławoń J.: Hodowla norek 1980. Gliński Z., Kostro K.: Podstawy hodowli lisów i norek. Profilaktyka i zwalczanie chorób, 2002.
Assessment methods: Final test; minimum required knowledge- 60%.
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