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Course details
Course code: IBS10086f15
Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: Livestock buildings
Major: Civil Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Edward Hutnik
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge Students are familiar with the issues concerning the division of livestock into groups. They have knowledge of systems of keeping animals on family farms. Students are familiar with functional and technological solutions applied in livestock rooms. They know how to design ancillary rooms in livestock buildings with low concentration of animals. Students are familiar with the issues concerning design of auxiliary facilities on a settlement plot. Skills Students can design rooms for cattle and pigs on a farm with low concentration of animals. They know how to adapt buildings made of small-sized elements to keep livestock there. They can design ancillary rooms in livestock buildings. Students can also design auxiliary facilities on a family farm. They can design indoor and outdoor circulation routes.

Competences: Students understand the importance of animal production on family farms. They understand the necessity to ensure well-being of animals in livestock rooms. Students understand the importance of mechanization of works in facilities with low concentration of animals.

Prerequisites: General engineering, mechanization of works in livestock facilities.

Course content: Buildings for dairy cows, calves, heifers and young beef cattle – functional and spatial solutions in the buildings. Methods of keeping cattle. Positions and pens for cattle. Functional and spatial solutions in buildings for pigs. Methods of keeping animals in individual technological groups. Positions and pens for sows, piglets, porkers and sows with piglets. Encyclopedic knowledge of keeping sheep, hens and broilers. Structural and material solutions for livestock buildings made from small-sized elements.

Recommended literature: 1.Lenard J. Budownictwo wiejskie. SGGW Warszawa 1993. 2. Markiewicz P.: Detale projektowe nowoczesnych technologii budowlanych Wyd. ARCHU-PLUS, Kraków 2002. 3. Myczko A. i in.: Projektowanie, budowa i wyposażenie budynków inwentarskich: Oprac. IBMER.Warszawa 1998.. 4. Nawrocki L.: Inżynieria produkcji świń, Wyd. Politechnika Opolska, Opole 2011. 5. Nawrocki L. Technika a dobrostan bydła, Wyd. Politechnika Opolska, Opole 2009. 6. Praca zbiorowa. „Standardy technologiczne dla gospodarstw rolnych” IBMER, Warszawa 2004. Poradniki i katalogi: Systemy utrzymania bydła, Systemy utrzymania świń. Systemy utrzymania drobiu. Systemy utrzymania owiec. Magazynowanie pasz. Magazynowanie nawozów naturalnych. 7. Schabowicz K., Gorzelańczyk T. Materiały do ćwiczeń projektowych z budownictwa ogólnego. Wyd. Dolnośląskie wydawnictwo Edukacyjne. Wrocław 2009. 8. Wajdzik C. Projektowanie i eksploatacja budynków dla bydła. Skrypt AR nr 360, Wrocław 1991.

Assessment methods: 1 project, 1 test, written exam.

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