2023-2024 / BIOL2018-1

Animal nutrition

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in bioengineering2 crédits 
 Master in agroecology (120 ECTS)2 crédits 
 Master in innovation management and the food design (120 ECTS)2 crédits 

Lecturer

Yves Beckers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Course content :

  • The composition and analysis of feeds
  • The digestion of feeds in the pig, the chick and the ruminant
  • The metabolism of nutrients
  • The evaluation of feeds : energy and protein value in the pig and the ruminant
  • Water and feed intake

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course aims at giving the basic prnciples of animal nutrition, their application and the current knowledge of feed digestion and nutrient metabolism in farm animals
After completing the course the student is expected to :

  • understand and utilize nutrition scientific vocabulary,
  • understand the basis of farm animal nutrition
  • be able to interact in a general discussion in the field of animal nutrition.
This course contributes to the acquisition of the following skills:
  • Identify relevant qualitative and quantitative information related to an agronomic process
  • Adapt existing solutions, taking into account their performance and technical, environmental and economic constraints, in response to a bioengineering problem
  • Identify limiting parameters of a process or a system

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

BIOL2045-1 - Biology basis

CHIM9239-2 - Chemestry of renawable ressources

BIOL2011-1 - Human and animal phsyiology



 

 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Oral presentations and interactions with the students.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face to face

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus; copies of slides
Nutrition, 2007, P. Insel, R.E. Turner, D. Ross, Jones and Bartlett Publishers Canada, 782 p + appendices
Introduction à la nutrition des animaux domestiques, 2002, C. Jean-Blain, Ed. Tec et Doc, 424 p.
Basic animal nutrition and feeding, 2005. Pond W.G., Church D.C., Pond K.R. & Schoknecht P.A., Willey International Edition, Fifth Edition, 580 p.
Animal nutrition, 2011. McDonald, R.A. Edwards, J.F.D Greenhalgh, C.A. Morgan, L.A. Sinclair, R.G. Wilkinson. Prentice Hall, Seventh Edition, 692 p.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )


Additional information:

Written exam for each group. The precise procedures for carrying out the exams will be available on eCampus.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Nihil

Contacts

Précision Livestock and Nutrition
GxABT
Yves Beckers

  • yves.beckers@uliege.be
  • 081/622119
 

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