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HFE303
Nutrition and Optimisation of Diets for Monogastric Animals
Course responsible
Nils Petter Kjos
IHA
Number of credits allocated
10.0
Language
Norwegian
Limits for class size
If there are less than 5 students, the course will be given according to an alternative schedule/self study.
Semester/trimester
August block
Autumn parallel
January block
Spring parallel
June block
X
Colour explanation: Red/yellow = teaching periods. The red period indicates when the teaching starts.
Teachers
Øystein Ahlstrøm, Birger Svihus and others.
Type of course
The course includes 50 hours of lectures and 20 hours of group work.
Compulsory educational activities
Exercises. The exercises will deal with calculation of digestibility/nutritive balance studies with monogastrics (roosters, mink or pigs), calculations on energy and protein value of compound feeds and feedstuffs for monogastrics, and optimising of diets for monogastrics.
Prerequisites
KJM100, HFX201, HFE200, HFE202, HFX253.
Recommended prerequisites
KJM110, KJB200.
Exam
S
Assessment methods
Written examination.
Grading
A-F
Examination aids
B1: distributed calculator, no other aids.
Course frequency
Annually
Teaching methods
The course includes lectures, group work/exercises as well as calculations on feed evaluation and optimisation of diets for pigs and poultry.
Examiner
The external examiner will be used actively in the planning of the course, the practical exercises and the examination questions. The external examiner will individually assess the examination answers.
Entrance requirements
Special requirements in Science
Preferential right
Animal Science and Aquaculture.
Objective of course
Students should have a detailed understanding of the digestion and intermediary metabolism of energy and nutrients in monogastric animals, as well as the theoretical basis for energy and protein evaluation systems for monogastric animals (pigs, poultry, fur animals). Students should be able to use this knowledge for evaluating feedstuffs and complete feeds used for different domestic animal productions, based on physiological, nutritive, quality-related and resource-related conditions.
Course contents
Characteristics of the digestion and intermediary metabolism in monogastric animals. Background and construction of the energy and protein evaluation systems found in pigs, poultry and fur animals. Principles for an optimal feed composition and choice of feedstuffs based on considerations of product quality, resource utilisation and environmental concerns. Determination of standards for nutrition supply under various production conditions. When appropriate due to ongoing experiments, demonstration of digestion/nutritive balance studies in monogastric animals (roosters, minks or pigs) may be performed. Exercises on the calculation of energy and protein values in feedstuffs and compound feeds for monogastric animals.
Syllabus
Lecture book: McDonalds, P., Edwards, R. A., Greenhalgh, J. F. D. & Morgan, C. A. (2002). Animal Nutrition. Sixth Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall. The syllabus will further consist of lecture notes, as well as relevant articles from Norwegian and international literature.
Last updated
2010-04-11
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