| Course ID: | MWW-SE>NUTRITION |
| Course title: | ANIMAL NUTRITION AND FEED QUALITY |
| Semester: | 4 / Spring |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Lectures/Classes: | 30 / 45 hours |
| Field of study: | Veterinary Medicine |
| Study cycle: | 1st cycle |
| Type of course: | compulsory |
| Prerequisites: | There is a limit of 16 people registered for a particular course Basic knowledge of biochemistry, physiology and anatomy of animals. |
| Contact person: | dr Maja Słupczyńska maja.slupczynska@upwr.edu.pl |
| Short description: | The aim of the course is to provide to students basic nutritional and feeding information for common farm animals. During the course students familiarize with feed composition, nutrients digestion, absorption, utilization and in various animals. Moreover, students learn to evaluate the nutritional value of the various feedstuffs, evaluate the animal's nutrient requirements in the different stages and balancing of rations as well as importance of nutritionally caused diseases. |
| Full description: | The course including following subjects: feeds chemical analysis and composition of feedstuffs; feeds division; methods of feedstuffs processing and preparation; nutrients – their role, digestion in monogastric and ruminants; energy metabolism; protein sources and their metabolism; non-protein nitrogen compounds; minerals and vitamins functions, sources and signs of deficiency and toxicity; functioning of the ruminant and non-ruminant digestive systems; feed requirement for the various physiological processes; proper and legal use of feed additives; etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of metabolic and nutritional related diseases and disorders. |
| Bibliography: | 1. Mc Donald P., Edwards R.A., Greenhalgh J.F., Morgan C.A. : Animal Nutrition (Ed), Longman Scientific and Technical, New York, 1955. 2. Kirchgessner M., Tierernährung.10 neubearbeitete Aufgabe, Verlag Union Agrar, Frankfurt/M, 1997. |
| Learning outcomes: | Knowledge: - specifies a digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrients essential vitamins and minerals in animal nutrition. - defines the base of assessment systems of energy and protein feed and the need for living and production of various species of animals - proposes feed for various animals know their characteristics and taking into account their impact on the physiology of nutrition and economics as well as recommending the selection of appropriate additives. - describes a metabolic disorder symptoms in animal nutrition background indicates ways to prevent Skills: - interpret a feed analysis results and selected physiological studies allow to estimate their nutritional value and usefulness in animal nutrition - arranges own feed rations and succinct recipe mixes for farm animals (ruminants and monogastric) having different directions of livestock Social competences: - takes responsibility for making decisions towards people and animals - explains the environmental burden arising from animal feed |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: | The rating obtained for the classes of 50% and an assessment obtained from the lectures - exam 50%. |