Animal Nutrition and Feeding

Modulo: 'H13-133-A' - 'Unita' didattica: Animal comparative nutrition'.
LECTURES
The feeding behavior (2 hours)
Nutrients: protein, carbohydrates and lipids (4 hours)
The minerals and vitamins (2 hours)
The energy (2 hours)
The digestibility (2 hours)
Antioxidants (1 hours)
The nutrition of dairy cattle and beef (3 hours)
The nutrition of the horse (2 hours)
The nutrition of the pig (2 hours)
The nutrition of the dog and cat (2 hours)
Outline of nutrition in avian species (1 hour)
Outline of nutrition in aquatic species (1 hour)
EXERCISES
Visit to farms (16 hours)


Modulo: 'H13-133-B' - 'Animal feed evaluation'
AIM: classification and analysis of feedstuffs, provision of the basic principles for recognition and evaluation of feed chemical and nutritional properties.
LECTURES
Feedstuffs: classification and chemical composition (1 hour)
Feed analysis: sampling, chemical analysis, NIRS, in vivo and in vitro analysis (3 hours)
Composition and nutritional properties of:
Cereals (3 hours)
Oil seed and by-products (2 hours)
Products of animal origin as feed (2 hours)
By-products (2 hours)
Forages (3 hours)
EXERCISES
Thematic seminars (GMO, functional feed, feed sampling, )(3 hours)
Feed laboratory (wet chemistry and NIR) (4 hours)
Feed macro/microscopic examination (4 hours)
Visit to sector companies (5 hours)

Modulo: 'H13-133-C' - 'Unita' didattica: Feed manufacturing technology'.
AIM: Knowledge of plant layout and manufacturing operations of feed and premix industry. Knowledge
of quality assurance. Feed and premix formulation by hand and by software.
LECTURES
Feed production in Italy, in the EU and worldwide (1 hour)
Plant layout and manufacturing operations of feed and premix industry (4 hours)
Feed and premix formulation for monogastrics (4 hours)
Feed and premix formulation for ruminants (4 hours)
Economical valuation of feed and premix production (3 hours)
EXERCISES
Visits to feed and premix manufacturing plants (8 hours)
Practical work at the Research and Teaching Centre for Animal Production (8 hours)
Feed particle size analysis lab (2 hours)
Feed microscopy lab (2 hours)

Modulo: 'H13-133-D' - 'Unita' didattica: Diet formulation for ruminants'.
AIM: To study the nutritional management of polygastric animals with particular references to the feed characteristics, the type of feeding and the relationship between nutrition, animal welfare and farming management.
LECTURES
Principal diets constituents, concepts of forages, concentrates and peNDF (2 hours)
Proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals (1 hour)
Mais, whole grain silage, grain and ear mash (1 ore)
Factors affecting feed assumption, ruminal kinetics and feed turnover (2 hours)
Forages: grasses, legumes, hays, silo hays, grass silo (1 hour)
Energy and protein concentrates (1 hour)
Brans, Beat pulps, Soybeans, Distillers, Beer threshers, Ca Soaps, Additives (1 hour)
Dairy cow: feeding plan and dry period, BCS, Fecal score (2 hours)
Dairy cows: feeding plan and close up and peripartum, traditional feednig and unifeed (2 hours)
Beef cattle: feeding plan and arrival phase (2 hours)
Beef cattle: feeding and meat quality (1 hour)
EXERCISES
Dairy cows: practical aspects of dairy cows feeding (8 hours)
Beef cattle: practical aspects of beef cattle feeding (8 hours)



Modulo: 'H13-133-E' - 'Diet formulation for monogastric animals'.
AIM: Considering the importance of diet composition for enhance pigs growth performances and health, the aim of the course is to provide knowledge about right diet formulation in relation to the different physiological phases
LECTURES
Introduction (1 hour)
Raw materials for Swine (3 hours)
Swine nutrition (2 hours)
Parma Ham Disciplinary (2 hours)
Nutritional requirements for gestation sow (2 hours)
Nutritional requirements for lactating sow (2 hours)
Nutritional requirements for post weaned piglet (2 hours)
Nutritional requirements for growing-finishing pig (2 hours)
EXERCISES
Diet formulation in gestation sow (4 hours)
Diet formulation in lactating sow (4 hours)
Diet formulation in post weaned piglet (4 hours)
Diet formulation for growing-finishing pig (4 hours)