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Subject | ANIMAL NUTRITION | Code | 00106027 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Descriptors | Credit. | Type | Year | Period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Compulsory | Third | Second |
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Department | PRODUCCION ANIMAL |
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cvals@unileon.es csarh@unileon.es slopp@unileon.es imata@unileon.es nmerb@unileon.es mjrang@unileon.es |
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General description | Scientific basis of nutritive value of feeds and study of factors affecting nutrient requirements of animals, with emphasis on effects of feeding on productivity, health and well-being of animals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Competencias |
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A19613 | 106P11 Use protocols aimed at modifying and optimizing animal production systems. |
A19623 | 106P3 Use basic analytical techniques and interpret their clinical, biological and chemical results. |
A19668 | 106S44 Raw materials for animal feed: characteristics, production and conservation. |
A19669 | 106S45 Bases of animal nutrition, ration formulation and feed manufacturing. |
B6471 | 106G1 Analyse, synthesise, solve problems and make decisions in the professional fields of the veterinarian. |
B6472 | 106G2 Work as a team, single or multidisciplinary, and show respect, appreciation and sensitivity to the work of others. |
B6476 | 106G6 Search and manage information related to the veterinarians activity. |
Learning aims |
Competences | |||
To comprehend the fundamentals of animal nutrition. | A19668 A19669 |
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To Interpret rationing tables and the formulas of rations in teh feeding of different animal species. | A19613 A19668 A19669 |
B6471 B6476 |
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To analyze the components of animal feeds | A19613 A19623 A19668 |
B6472 |
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To evaluate the nutritional needs of animals in different productive phases. | A19669 |
B6471 B6476 |
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To Recognize the main raw materials that can be used in animal feeding. | A19623 A19668 |
B6476 |
Contents |
Topic | Sub-topic |
I. NUTRIENTS AND NUTRITIVE VALUE. | TtHEORY 1.-The role of nutrition in the Veterinary Medicine Degree. 2.- Digestive processes as determinants of the nutritional value of foods. 3.- Digestibility: concept and definition. Main factors that affect digestibility. 4.- Evaluation of foods. Energy content of of foods and energy partition 5.- Utilisation of metabolisable energy. 6.- Energy systems 7. Evaluationn of foods. Protein. Fundamentals. Protein quality for monogastric animals. 8.- Protein quality for ruminants 9.- The INRA Protein sYstem. PRACTICES Problem solving and analysis of tables and data. Prractice 1. - Chemical composition. Practice 2.- Digestibility Practice 3.- Energy. Práctica 4.- Protein LABORATORY Practice 1.- Chemical composition (1) Practice 1.- Chemical composition (2) Practice 1.- Chemical composition (3). |
II. NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS OF ANIMALS | THEORY 10. Fundamentals 11. Maintenance. Basal and fasting metabolism. Energy cost of physical activity. 12. Influence of climate on energy metabolism and requirements for maintenance 13. Protein requirements for maintenance. Vitamins and minerals requirements for maintenance. 14. Growth and development. The chemical composition of gain. 15. Nutrient requirements for growth. 16. Nutrient requieremens for reproduction. Nutrition and the initiation of reproductive ability. Plane of nutrition, fertility and fecundity. 17. Nutrition and gestation. 18. Egg production. 19 . Lactation. Source of the milk constituents. 20 Nutrient requirements for milk production. PRACTICES. Problem solving and analysis of tables and data. Pracitce 1. Maintenance Practice 2. Growth Practice 3. Lactation (1) Practice 4. Lactation (2) |
III. INTAKE AND RATION FORMULATION | THEORY 21.-Voluntary intake of food. Regulation of ingestion. 22.- Prediction of food intake. 23.- Basis of ration formulation. 24. Integration of nutrient requierements, nutritive value and intake Informatiion nedded: and models. PRACTICES. Practice 1. Formulation of feeds for monogastric animals Practice 2. Ration formulation (1) Practice 3. Ration formulation (2) Practice 4. Ration formulation. (3) Practice 5. Ratiion formulation (4) VISIT to a feed millling |
Planning |
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Class hours | Hours outside the classroom | Total hours | |||||||
Problem solving, classroom exercises | 16 | 16 | 32 | ||||||
Laboratory practicals | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||||||
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms | 10 | 15 | 25 | ||||||
Field work/trips | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
Lecture | 42 | 63 | 105 | ||||||
Mixed tests | 4 | 12 | 16 | ||||||
Mixed tests | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies |
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Problem solving, classroom exercises | In two-hour sessions, practical numerical exercises will be presented and solved and data from tables of nutritional value and nutritional needs will be analyzed. |
Laboratory practicals | In the nutrition laboratory, chemical analyzes will be carried out, the results of which will be used to compare different foods from the point of view of their potential nutritional value. Students will have a tutorial that they must prepare before going to the laboratory. |
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms | Formulation of feed and animal rations. |
Field work/trips | Visit to a feed factory. |
Lecture | Master classes: expository method, group dynamics, participatory-active methodology. |
Personalized attention |
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Assessment |
Description | Qualification | ||
Mixed tests | At the end of the teaching of the theoretical topics of nutritional value, a written test will be carried out that will have a liberating nature. This partial is considered as an advance of the ordinary exam, therefore, those students who fail it must recover this part of the subject in the extraordinary call. Students who do not take the partial exam may take the exam for this part of the subject on the date of the regular exam. At the end of the semester (ordinary exam), a global test will be taken in which the knowledge acquired about the aspects covered in both the midterm and the final exam will have a similar structure. Students will be asked to respond to questions of medium development and to interpret data related to the nutritional value of food (in the case of the subject not having been released in the partial exam) and to the nutritional needs of animals. In addition, in both exams there will also be an objective test (questionnaire) whose grade will represent at least 50% of the grade. |
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Mixed tests | Continuous assessment. Controls will be carried out in which, at the beginning or at the end of a face-to-face session, the students present will be asked to answer a series of short questions or to resolve a practical question. Coinciding with the partial exam and the ordinary call exam, students will be able to take a problem exam. |
40% | |
Others | To pass the subject a minimun of 20 points must be obtained through continuous evaluation and a minimum of 30 in the theoretical contents. In addition, it is necessary to pass the theoretical exams on Nutritional Assessment and Nutritional Needs and Rationing. |
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Other comments and second call | |||
During the evaluation tests, to use printed materials or electronic resources (calculators, tablets, phones, computers, etc.) will be not permitted, except for those tests that, under the express direction of the teacher, require the use of any of these resources. |
Sources of information |
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE |
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