Animal nutrition

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Yves Beckers, Nadia Everaert

Coordinator

Yves Beckers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Course content :

• The composition and analysis of feed
• The digestion of feeds in the pig, the bird and the ruminant
• The metabolism of nutrients
• The evaluation of feeds : energy and protein value in the pig and the ruminant
• Water and feed intake

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course aims at giving the basic prnciples of animal nutrition, their application and the current knowledge of feed digestion and nutrient metabolism in farm animals
After completing the course the student is expected to :

• understand and utilize nutrition scientific vocabulary,
• understand the basis of farm animal nutrition
• be able to interact in a general discussion in the field of animal nutrition.

• Identify relevant qualitative and quantitative information related to an agronomic process
• Adapt existing solutions, taking into account their performance and technical, environmental and economic constraints, in response to a bioengineering problem
• Identify limiting parameters of a process or a system

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

BIOL2010-1 - Cellular biology
CHIM9239-2 - Biological molecules chemistrys
BIOL2011-1 - Comparative animal anatomy and physiology
 
 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Oral presentations and interactions with the students.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face to face

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus; copies of slides
Nutrition, 2007, P. Insel, R.E. Turner, D. Ross, Jones and Bartlett Publishers Canada, 782 p + appendices
Introduction à la nutrition des animaux domestiques, 2002, C. Jean-Blain, Ed. Tec et Doc, 424 p.
Basic animal nutrition and feeding, 2005. Pond W.G., Church D.C., Pond K.R. & Schoknecht P.A., Willey International Edition, Fifth Edition, 580 p.
Animal nutrition, 2011. McDonald, R.A. Edwards, J.F.D Greenhalgh, C.A. Morgan, L.A. Sinclair, R.G. Wilkinson. Prentice Hall, Seventh Edition, 692 p.

Assessment methods and criteria

Knowledges and competencies acquired by the student thanks to this course will be assessed during collegial oral examination. One question will be blind-chosen by each student. After about 25 minutes of preparation, each student will present his answer and discuss it with the 2 teachers during about 25 minutes.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

A part of the course is taught in english.

Contacts

Précision Livestock and Nutrition
Department AgroBioChem
GxABT
Yves Beckers

• yves.beckers@ulg.ac.be
• 081/622119

• nadia.everaert@ulg.ac.be
• 081/622448