Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject ANIMAL NUTRITION Code 00106027
Study programme
0106 GRADO EN VETERINARIA
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
8 Compulsory Third Second
Language
Castellano
Prerequisites
Department PRODUCCION ANIMAL
Coordinador
VALDÉS SOLÍS , CARMEN
E-mail cvals@unileon.es
pjalvn@unileon.es
csarh@unileon.es
slopp@unileon.es
imata@unileon.es
nmerb@unileon.es
mjrang@unileon.es
Lecturers
ÁLVAREZ NOGAL , PEDRO JOSÉ
SARO HIGUERA , CRISTINA
VALDÉS SOLÍS , CARMEN
LÓPEZ PUENTE , SECUNDINO
MATEOS ALVAREZ , IVAN
MERINO BLONDIA , NADIA
RANILLA GARCÍA , MARÍA JOSÉ
Web http://
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
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente PRODUCCION ANIMAL GONZALO ABASCAL , CARLOS
Secretario PRODUCCION ANIMAL SAEZ-ROYUELA GONZALO , MARIA
Vocal PRODUCCION ANIMAL GUTIERREZ GIL , BEATRIZ
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente PRODUCCION ANIMAL FUENTE CRESPO , L. FERNANDO DE LA
Secretario PRODUCCION ANIMAL CARRAL LLAMAZARES , JOSE MANUEL
Vocal PRODUCCION ANIMAL ALONSO DE LA VARGA , MARTA ELENA

Competencias
Code  
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
To Interpret rationing tables and the formulas of rations in teh feeding of different animal species. A19613
A19668
A19669
 B6471
B6476
To analyze the components of animal feeds A19613
A19623
A19668
 B6472
To evaluate the nutritional needs of animals in different productive phases. A19669
 B6471
B6476
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
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  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
Methodologies   ::  
  Description
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
 
Lecture
Problem solving, classroom exercises
Field work/trips
Description
Personal attention would be used if personal support is needed

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.
 60%
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.
 
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

Basic , , ,
INRA, Alimentación de bovinos, ovinos y caprinos. Necesidades de los animales. Valores de los alimentos. Tablas INRA 2007, Zaragoza: Acribia, 2010
Muller MF, Enciclopedia de nutrición y producción animal, Zaragoza: Acribia, 2008
McDonald P, Edwards RA, Greenhalgh JFD, Morgan CA, Nutrición Animal, Zaragoza: Acribia, 2013

Complementary Sanz Parejo E, Alimentos, conceptos generales y clasificaciones. En: Buxadé C. Alimentos y racionamiento, Madrid: Mundi Prensa, 1995
Cheeke PR , Applied animal nutrition , New York: Prentice-Hall , 1999
Church DC, Pond WG , Bases científicas para la nutrición y alimentación de los animales domésticos, Zaragoza: Acribia , 1977
Cheeke PR, Dierenfeld ES , Comparative animal nutrition and metabolism , Wallingford: CABI Publishing , 2010
Church DC, Livestock feeds and feeding, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002
Bondi AA, Nutrición animal, Zaragoza: Acribia, 1988
National Research Council, Nutrient requirements of domestic animals, Washington: National Academy Press,
Maff, Tables of nutritive value and chemical composition of feedingstuffs, Aberdeen: RSS, 1990


Recommendations


Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
PHYSIOLOGY I / 00106003
BIOCHEMISTRY / 00106004
PHYSIOLOGY II / 00106007
AGRONOMY / 00106008
INTRODUCTION TO THE VETERINARY PROFESSION / 00106009
APPLIED COMPUTING / 00106021