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| ANIM0023-1 | Bromatology and the cultivation of animal fodder, part 2
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| Duration : | 21h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Jérôme Bindelle |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| The course feed science and forage cultivation partim "domestic animal feeding" 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, we 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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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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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 yeild a written document describing your case study. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lecture : 3h
Exercises : 3h
Mid-term oral presentation
Case study and individualized coaching |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| You will have a PDF copy of the slides on e-campus. You will also have acces to an excell file to help you with diet formulation. |
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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 solutions for the diets (ingredients, requirement, supplies vs. requirements)
the justification of the choices made (animal requirements, feed ingredients, references)
quality of the references used (recent? scientific? relevant?)
the quality of the document (use the standards for a MSc thesis)<br /><br /> Relevance of the personnal work of the student, synchronus and asynchronus implication of the student in the e-course |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| This course is coupled to the course of JL Hornick : RAVT3110-1 Domestic animal nutrition applied to tropical areas.
The exact date for sending the written report will be announced during the oral presentation to the teachers.
In any case, this date will never be later than the first day of the 1st or 2nd session of examination. Late comming reports will not be considered and an absence mark will automatically be given.
The written report must be sent by email to all the teachers of the course, without exception. Both oral presentation and written report will be assessed.
Yves Beckers will teach the lectures and Jérôme Bindelle & Jean-Luc Hornick will evaluate the reports and the oral presentation for this course. |
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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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