Rural Buildings and Facilities

The course is divided into 32 lessons and 32 hours of exercises.
Lectures
· The needs of animals in terms of indoor environmental quality (temperature, relative humidity, air velocity). Environmental changes induced by the presence of animals and facilities for maintenance of the welfare conditions (insulation, ventilation, air treatment). The determination of the volume of ventilation in summer and winter, the verification of the thermal balance of a building. (4h)
· Buildings for cattle in the stalls and free stalls for dairy cows. The environmental requirements, distribution patterns and construction, prefabrication, the time work. (4h)
· The milking parlor, the different solutions, mechanization, the milk and salt services. The premises and areas for periparturient. (6h)
· Buildings for pigs. The different organizational settings: a closed loop, the loop open, "the isowean". (4h)
· Buildings for industry birth, weaning, for gestation (standby heat first and second phase). The evolution of types in recent years in line development of breeding technologies. (4h)
· Buildings for all poultry. (4 h)
· The environmental impact of livestock-induced water, soil and air. (4h)
· The buildings for the preservation of green fodder (horizontal silos, vertical), and dried (barns, hay in two days). (2h)

Practice
It is expected to carry out:
Patterns of classroom exercises and structural design of stables for the young cattle breeding, for calves, beef cattle and pig farms (Ventilation, K index, silos dimension etc.) (32h)

This module aims to supply the basic knowledge of the principles underlying the operation of the main farm machinery and plants used in animal husbandry processes.

Lectures (32 h):
The tractor: architecture, typologies and functions; coupling between tractor and implement; tractor dynamic balance (4 h);
Techniques and technologies for forages supplying; machinery and systems for products storage and for animal feed preparation and distribution (12);
Milking machines and machine milking; automatic milking systems; milk cooling systems (12 h);
Machinery for manure management (2 h);
Precision livestock farming (2 h).

Exercises (32 h):
Work organization (working time analysis, performance and field capacity of farm machinery, useful and effective period for the execution of the main field operations); criteria of choice of implements.

Teaching materials:
In electronic format, available at http://ftangorraumim.ariel.ctu.unimi.it/v3/Home/default.aspx

Exam Mode:
Written exam