Morphological feeding and animal welfare
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 3° Year - Curriculum ZOOTECNICO ECONOMICO- Feeding techniques: Marcella Avondo and Antonio Natalello
- VALUTAZIONI MORFOFUNZIONALI E BENESSERE ANIMALE: Giuseppe Licitra and Antonio Natalello
Course Language: Italian
Taught classes: 56 hours
Exercise: 56 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
- Feeding techniques
To acquire knowledge on anatomy and physiology of the digestive system, highlighting the differences between monogastric and polygastric animals; to provide expertise on zootechnical feeds, their chemical-nutritional characteristics and conservation systems; to acquire skills on chemical-nutritional evaluation methods of zootechnical feeds.
- VALUTAZIONI MORFOFUNZIONALI E BENESSERE ANIMALE
To acquire the evaluation methods of the morphological characteristics of the animals in zootechnical production in order to estimate its production potential ad they associated; provide expertise on methods, traditional and modern, of detection of the main parameters functional related to the production aspects and reproductive of zootechnical species in function of the productive attitudes of different genetic types. Providing news general on the main regulations concerning animal welfare, ed also on some aspects of this thematic (transport, slaughter, castration, diagnostic systems).
Course Structure
- Feeding techniques
Class lectures (28 h).
In-depth seminars on some of the topics covered, classroom and laboratory exercises (28 h).
If teaching is given in a mixed formula or remotely, necessary changes may be introduced to what was previously stated in order to comply with the provided and reported syllabus.
Learning assessment may be done remotely if necessary.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis. - VALUTAZIONI MORFOFUNZIONALI E BENESSERE ANIMALE
Lectures, in-depth seminars on some of the topics covered, classroom exercises, farm visits with examples of morphological evaluation of live animals.
If teaching is given in a mixed formula or remotely, necessary changes may be introduced to what was previously stated in order to comply with the provided and reported syllabus.
Learning assessment may be done remotely if necessary.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
Detailed Course Content
- Feeding techniques
Notes on anatomy and physiology of the digestive system and physiology of the endocrine system. Chemical-nutritional characteristics of zootechnical feeds: chemical analysis, digestibility and nutritional value. Zootechnical feeds: green fodder, hay, silage, concentrates, by-products. Forage conservation techniques: haymaking and ensiling. Notes on the energy and protein needs of animals according to the phase of the production cycle
- VALUTAZIONI MORFOFUNZIONALI E BENESSERE ANIMALE
The part of morpho-functional evaluations of the course will cover the following topics: study and description of the skeleton; anatomy and physiology of the mammary apparatus; study of morphological types; zoognostic terminology; the zoognostic regions: anatomical bases and their merits and defects; zoometric measurements and indices; morphological and functional evaluation of the dairy cow and beef cattle; age estimation from the examination of the teeth; carcass classification (Europe and North America). Presentation of the main genetic improvement programs and relative indices of evaluation of the breeders. The part of the course that will deal with the welfare of farm animals will deal with the current legislation, the farriery technique (care of the bovine foot), the "Wellness" Integrated Diagnostic System, castration in the various species of zootechnical interest, animal transport and slaughter techniques
Textbook Information
- Feeding techniques
1. Bittante, Andrighetto, Ramanzin - "Fondamenti di zootecnica", Liviana Editrice, Padova
2.. Antongiovanni, Gualtieri - "Nutrizione e alimentazione animale", Edagricole editrice, Bologna
3. 3. Mc Donald, Edwards, Greenhalgh, Morgan, Sinclair, Wilkinson - "Animal nutrition", Pearson Education Limited Edition, Harlow, England
- VALUTAZIONI MORFOFUNZIONALI E BENESSERE ANIMALE
1) D. Balasini – Zoognostica – Edagricole;
2) Bortolami-Callegari-Beghelli – Anatomia e Fisiologia degli animali domestici – Edagricole;3) Cataloghi centri di fecondazione Artificiali
4) Dispense del docente; Supporti informatici forrniti dal docente tramite e-mail (glicitra@unict.it)/Piattaforma Studium