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| RAVT3110-2 | Domestic animal nutrition applied to tropical areas
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- part 2
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| Duration : | part 1 : 21h Th
part 2 : 21h Th
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| Lecturer : | part 1 : Jérôme Bindelle
part 2 : Jean‑Luc Hornick
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| Coordinator : | Jean‑Luc Hornick |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| The course RAVT3110-2 "domestic animal feeding in the tropics" aims at giving you the tools to formulate diets for domestic species.
Intensification of animal productions generally requires a better control of animal feeding. In a project for developping animal productions, whether you work with ruminants or singlstomached animals in intestifed of extensive systems, you will sooner or later reach a point where you'll ask yourselves the following questions: do the ingredients or forages available to the animals satisfy their feeding requirements? If not, which ressources in my environment can I sustainably use to fix this situation?
During the course, using poultry as an example, I will go through in a practical way:
- the specific requirements of animals when they are reared in the tropics;
- the ingredients and forages ressources available in the tropics;
- basics of diet formulation.
Afterwards, you will learn to use an easy software to formulate diets for single-stomached and ruminant species. |
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- Thermodynamic and physiological basis of nutritional requirements, physiology of the digestion, general feed analysis and characteristics.
- Special nutrition of breeding and wild animals.
- Computer based calculation in nutrition.
- Cases studies in tropical countries, developed by students.
- Ecosystemology of feed resources.
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the course, you will be able to formulate complete diets and complementary feeds for single stomach aniamls and grazing ruminants thanks to a good understanding of dietary requirements and feed ressources available in the tropics and to the perfect command of a diet formulation table. |
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| The course aims to develop overall skills in animal nutrition and in feed analysis, allowing critical views on case studies, especially by the way of a personal work.
The student will be able to simplify litterature data and to integrate them in the overall environment of his project. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basic knowledges in biology, anatomy, biochemistry and mathematics |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course will start with a introduction lecture of 3 h.
Afterwards, we will work together in the class on exercises so you learn how to use a diet formulation software.
Finally, you will have to work on a case study that you will have chosen. You are free to use any reference and ask the teachers for help to help you with the feed-back work that you will prepare. You will present your case study to the class for 10 min. The teachers will give you some useful comments to improve your work. In the end, you will be assessed on a written document describing your case study. |
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- Ex cathedra teaching of a theoretical methodological socle (6h).
- Individual supervision afterwards.
- Transmissive and interactive learning.
- Project based learning (with theoretical experimentation).
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lecture : 3h
Exercises in the class: 3h
Mid-term oral presentation
Case study and individualized coaching |
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| J-L. Hornick: 21 hours |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| You will have a PDF copy of the slides I will display during the lecture. You will also have acces to an excell file to help you with diet formulation. |
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| The notes may be printed from the website of the course |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| You will assessed on the written feed-back you will yield at the end of the course. Personally, I pay attention to the following point:
the scientific quality of the document
the ability to use the formulation software and to suggest feasible solutionsof synergy(ies) developped, their originality and their feasibility (ingredients, requirement, supplies vs. requirements)
quality of the references used (recent? scientific? relevant?)
the quality of the document (use the standards for a MSc thesis) |
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| Relevance of the personnal work of the student, synchronus and asynchronus implication of the student in the e-course |
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Organizational remarks :
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| Course access is subordinated to an on-line registration |
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Contacts :
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| For any question, please feel free to contact me to arrange an appointment: jerome.bindelle@ulg.ac.be or +32 81 62 26 09 |
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