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Course code: VVSS00096o11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Animal Nutrition and Feed Quality
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 45 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab., dr h.c. Dorota Jamroz
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: The course will prepare the students for analysis of animal feeding and diagnostics of possible disturbances as well as controlling of feeds and feeding. Moreover students understand modern systems of feeds conservation, composition of commercial feed mixtures and premixes as well as disturbances/diseases triggered by feeding mistakes.
Competences: After completing the course students are familiar with the fundamentals of monogastric animals and ruminants nutrition. Student knows the requirements for feeding and the ways of balancing diets offered to the particular species and feeding value of home-made and commercial feedstuffs. Also student are able to evaluate the feed quality and use them in modeling of different feeding systems. Student can evaluate the well- balanced diets for animals.
Prerequisites: Biochemistry, animal physiology.
Course content: Substantial nutrients, biochemistry of their transformation in monogastric animals and in ruminants. Metabolism and energy transformation. Feeds nutritive value. Minerals and vitamins and their role in animals’ feeding. Feed utilization. Feed quality, feed supplements, metabolic diseases, requirements of animals for nutrients, diseases caused by the feeding mistakes.
Recommended literature: Żywienie Zwierząt i Paszoznawstwo, pod red. Prof. Jamroz D. Vol 1, 2, 3, PWN 2001,2004. Tierernahrung, Ed. M.Kirchgessner, Verlag Union Agrar, Frankfurt,2004. Animal Nutrition, McDonald P. i wsp.,, Longmann Scientific and Technical, New York,1995.
Assessment methods: obligatory completion of practical training, written and oral exam; min. 70 % of knowledge to pass.
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