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Course code: BHS20155f12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: BACKYARD BIRDS KEEPING
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Artur Kowalczyk
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students learn about the rules of breeding and the specificity of domestic birds reproduction. They familiarize with construction and equipment of buildings for domestic birds.
Competences: Students acquire the knowledge in a range of extensive and semi-intensive husbandry of different species of domestic birds.
Prerequisites: Animal physiology, poultry breeding
Course content: Significance of backyard poultry keeping, basic species and breeds of poultry kept in extensive and semi-intensive husbandry, rules of maintenance of particular species of domestic birds, buildings and their equipment, yards.
Recommended literature: Stern A.: Przydomowy chów drobiu, Oficyna Wydawnicza MULICO, Warszawa 1995 Świerczewska E., Wężyk S., Horbańczuk J.: Chów drobiu, Oficyna wydawnicza HOŻA, Warszawa, 1999 Schone F., Peschke F. Amatorska hodowla kur. Wydawnictwo „Zagroda”, 2006 Horbańczuk J.O.: Strusie, Auto-Graf, Warszawa 2003 Hodowca Drobiu, magazyn dla producentów drobiu, zootechników i lekarzy weterynarii. Wydawca Pro Agricola Sp. z o.o., Gietrzwałd Polskie Drobiarstwo. Wydawca Przedsiębiorstwo Wielobranżowe „BEGEPO” Sp. z o.o. Poznań
Assessment methods: Written passing of lectures
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