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791-004 Animal Nutrition | |
Credit Points | 7.5 |
Coordinator | Mr C Laird |
Prerequisites | One Animal Management Elective. |
Contact | 3 hours per week |
Subject Description | The objective of this subject is to enable the students to:
The content includes: Evaluation of foods; digestibility, its measurement and factors affecting it, energy content of food and systems of its expression, energy retention, protein content and systems of measuring and expressing protein quality. Feed intake and factors affecting it, food processing, palatability, climatic effects. Growth stimulants and feed additives. Nutritional significance of traditional feedstuffs, and possible future role if be sources of animal feeds, and the nature and consequences of nutritional deficiencies and excess. The concept of economic efficiency with respect to nutritional inputs into animal production systems, and methods by which this efficiency may be maximised. |
Assessment | Assignment of 2000 words (40%); two hour examination (60%). |
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