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Course details
Course code: VVSS00235o15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Technologies in Animal Production
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Anna Rząsa
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Student after the course understands the specification of the large scale animal production organization, he is ready to prepare turnover of cattle/swine herd. He knows the principal rules of creating the technological groups of different species, he can choose and suggest the production cycle for the particular farm taking into account the animal size and existing buildings.
Competences: The knowledge of large scale animal production specification let to find out and recognize some disturbances influence on decreasing the production results and animals’ health status. After the course the student is able to cooperate with owner/breeder in improving of farm environment microbizm and usages production technologies.
Prerequisites: Animal breeding, etology, animal nutrition, animal hygiene
Course content: Presentation of the specification in a large scale animal production. General principles in specialized animal farms. Ways and means of efficiency estimation of used technologies, presentation of new modernization worries out in existing farms. Organization of animal production at farm. Turnover of cattle/swine, planning of herd scale and structure.
Recommended literature: Grodzki H.: Hodowla i użytkowanie zwierząt gospodarskich, SGGW Grudniewska B.: Hodowla i użytkowanie świń Jarka S.: Projekt gospodarczego urządzenia gospodarstwa rolniczego. SGGW 2004 Kołacz R., Dobrzański Z.: Higiena i dobrostan zwierząt gospodarskich, AR Wrocław 2006 Litwińczuk Z., Szulc T.: Hodowla i użytkowanie bydła. PWRiL 2005 Czasopisma: Hoduj z głową (bydło, świnie), Trzoda Chlewna, Hodowca bydła, Hodowca Trzody chlewnej, Drobiarstwo Polskie, Top Agrar
Assessment methods: Presence and taking part in classes, positive estimation of papers and projects (60 % required points for very good estimation)
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