Animal Nutrition, Nutritional Evaluation of Feed and Feed Technology

The course aims to provide the student principles of animal nutrition, chemical and nutritional evaluation of animal feeds and industrial feed technology in order to allow students to manage, during the third year, nutritional plans of food producing animals in extensive and intensive systems. This approach will allow students to understand the role of animal nutrition in improving animal efficiency and health, food quality, and reducing environmental impact. In this respect, the course provides insight into comparative study of the animal gastrointestinal tract and its relationship with nutrition, dietary management, digestion and nutrient utilization; effects of nutrition over the digestive tract among species; nutritional requirements among the different species; fundamental knowledge on animal feeds and their chemical and nutritional evaluation; feed mix and premixes plants; feed mixes and premixes software formulation.

Knowledge and understanding: the student, at the end of the course, will have to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of animal nutrition, chemical and nutritional evaluation of animal feeds and feed technology.
Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will have to demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of animal nutrition, animal feed nutritional evaluation and feed technology to simple simulated cases. Critical Thinking and Judgment: the student will have to demonstrate the ability to critically present the information acquired, by means of discussions in class and specific seminars.
Ability to Communicate What Has Been Learned: the student is expected to use scientifically appropriate language, in particular terminology referring to animal nutrition, animal feed nutritional evaluation and feed technology. The practical activities and seminars are intended to stimulate the ability to use specific terminology and the ability to discuss scientifically with peers.
Lifelong learning skills: the student must gain the ability to use acquired knowledge to interpret new scenarios, for instance searching scientific databases and critically organising new information.