Elements of Stables Building and Technologies for Animal Management

Lectures
Animal welfare, stereotypes, environmental parameters and their measurement. 3 hours
- Breeding phases according to the use of the horse. Equestrian center design, the stable. 2 hours
- Equipment inside the pits, feeder-drinkers-types of litter. Paddock, pasture. 3 hours
- Covered and uncovered riding arena, round pen, types of obstacles. 3 hours
- Premises and annexed equipment: Carousel-swimming pool-treadmill, Saddlery-shower-farriery-food storage-infirmary-dungpit. 3 hours
- Grooming & necessary tools. 3 hours
- Horse transport. 3 hours
- Kennels and catteries: the design and plant engineering criteria as a function of animal welfare, air quality (ventilation) and hygiene. ( disinfection) 4 hours
- Pets and the application of precision technology and sensors 3 hours
- Sensors (acoustic, chemical, electrical, mechanical, location, optical, imaging, light, pressure, temperature and cameras) 4 hours
- Sensors and automated monitoring in companion animals (pets and horses): industry background, economic and population data, issues in the pet industry 5 hours
- Sensors used, physiological measurement methods, behavioral measurement methods, acoustic sensors. 3 hours
- Future developments in pet technology. 1 hour

Practice:
- Stable sizing exercise. 1 hour
- Building heat balance, calculation of the global heat transfer coefficient (U). 4 hours
- Exercise for storing food and litter; Manure storage sizing exercise. 3 hours
- Exercises on the calculation of the air changes in the rooms for the pet 3 hours
- Practical examples of sensor operation and related application in the monitoring system) 3 hours
- Data Science exercises ( odelling) 2 hours