2018-2019 / ANIM0019-1

Applied feeding

Duration

5h Th, 31h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS)4 crédits 

Lecturer

Yves Beckers, Nadia Everaert

Coordinator

Yves Beckers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course consists of two distinct parts: 1. Your articipation in an animal experiment carried out within the laboratory, 2. The determination of intestinal health biomarkers in pigs or poultry.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course aims to teach you how to use your knowledge to solve a problem in the field of animal nutrition and nutrition using methods such as animal experimentation, data analysis and interpretation, the synthesis of information so as to obtain correct conclusions to a scientific hypothesis.
At the end of the course, the student will have the skills to :

  • Formulate and solve problems in the field of animal nutrition and nutrition;
  • Critically evaluate data and draw scientific conclusions;
  • To work effectively within a group.
This course contributes to the acquisition of the skills listed below
  • Diagnose an agronomic process in technical terms
  • Adapt an experimental protocol or a sampling plan on the basis of a given hypothesis and interpret the results
  • To develop an experimental plan or a sampling plan based on a hypothesis formulated, and to interpret the results (a certifying evaluation)

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

ALIM0018-1 - Bormatology and culture of animal fooder ANIM0015-1 - Dairy animal production science BIOL2018-1 - Animal nutrition

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures : 6 h
Practical works : 42 h

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

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus, copy of slides, an updated list of reference books are made available on the E-Campus site.

Assessment methods and criteria

Group report (50%) Oral exam (50%)

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

During the animal experiment (3 weeks), one student per group must be present (1 to 1,5 h) daily in the Centre d'Essais des Productions Animales (CEPA). Any student not able to attend these activities must warn in advance the teacher. The written reports must be sent via email at latest on the last day of the lecturer period in December of the academic year. Late reports will not be considered and an absence mark will automatically be given.

Contacts

Beckers Yves
081/62-21-19 Yves.Beckers@ulg.ac.be(YvYves.Beckers@ulg.ac.be )
Everaert Nadia
081/62-24-48
Nadia.Everaert@ulg.ac.be
  Precision  livestock and Nutrition - GxABT Passage des Déportés, 2 B-5030 Gembloux 081/62-21-19