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Course code: BHS10040f16
Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Small Ruminants Husbandry (II)
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Piotr Nowakowski
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students

Learning outcomes: Knowledge of small ruminants specific species biology, which play global or niche role in animal production is gained (sheep – including hair sheep, goats, fallow deer and elk, camelids of a new world). Skills: Different approaches in organizing production systems are known and person is able to compare biology and economic efficiency of small ruminants production systems to others in a broad perspective (not curtailed to only 1 region or a country).

Competences: Student has proper attitude to animals and understands the effects of keeping small ruminants in the environment. Student is prepared to organize and recommend sustainable production systems of small ruminants and is aware of life long learning and developing new skills in this area.

Prerequisites: Small ruminants basic course; grasslands management; basic animal nutrition.

Course content: The importance of goats to humans – domestication, goat breeds and their milk, meat, wool and reproduction performance, goats nutrition, breeding and housing; small ruminants specific species biology (sheep – including hair sheep, goats, fallow deer and elk, camelids of a new world); behavioral traits as a result of interaction species/breed – environment; forage resources and systems of small ruminants feeding in the world; services of small ruminants to the environment – landscape conservation; systems of production in the Southern and Northern hemisphere; estimation of biological efficiency of small ruminants systems of production as well as technical and economic indices calculation.

Recommended literature: Lasota-Moskalewska A. (2005) Zwierzęta udomowione w dziejach ludzkości. WUW, Warszawa; Nowicki B., Jasek S., Maciejowski J., Nowakowski P., Pawlina E. (2011) Rasy zwierząt gospodarskich. Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa; Nowicki B, Chrzanowska J., Jamroz D., Pawlina E. (1999) Kozy – Chów, hodowla i użytkowanie. Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa; Patkowska-Sokoła B. (red.) (2000) Podstawy chowu i hodowli owiec. Wyd. AR we Wrocławiu; Przegląd Hodowlany (miesięcznik). Wójtowski J. (red) (2013) Hodowla, chów i użytkowanie kóz. Wyd. UP w Poznaniu

Assessment methods: Course completion: Students who have practicals completed are obliged to undertake written test during the exam session, which will be the basis for knowledge verification. 60% knowledge required to pass. When the test is not passed in the first term, student has the right to pass it again in the second term.

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