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Course code: BHS20076f12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: PRO-ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF FREE RANGED AND FARM ANIMALS
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Piotr Nowakowski
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Development of student’s ability to interpret data about animal production from regional, continental and global perspective taking into account environmental conditions.
Competences: Evaluation of nutritional properties of natural, bio diversified fodder resources; management of animal production due to environmental constraints taking into account stocking density and animal needs; development of animal production schemes for close to nature environment.
Prerequisites: Botany, grasslands management, general animal breeding, animal nutrition
Course content: Animal welfare and production efficiency; systems of animal production aimed towards management of landscape and environment; feeding herbivores with maximum utilisation of natural resources of forage.
Recommended literature: Dawkins R.: Fenotyp rozszerzony – Dalekosiężny gen. Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa, 2003 INRA: Żywienie przeżuwaczy. Zalecane normy i tabele wartości pokarmowej pasz. Pod red. R. Jarrige’a. IFiŻZ PAN, Jabłonna i Omnitech Press, Warszawa, 1993 Lasota – Moskalewska A.: Zwierzęta udomowione w dziejach ludzkości. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 2005 Schmidt-Nielsen K.: Dlaczego tak ważne są rozmiary zwierząt. Skalowanie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, 1994 Spedding C.R.W.: Ekologia łąkarska. PWRiL, Warszawa, 1977
Assessment methods: Completion of practicals Written exam
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