| Department of Animal Science and Animal Health (200 | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | evaluation of project report Aid allowed Description of Examination: pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | 3 week course in June | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | 3-week course June | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Theme: Animal Production (new course authum 2003) | ||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The objective of the cource is to give the students an understanding of the biological background for the production. Lectures will focus on how thw nutrition, feeding, breeding, management and the most common diseases influence both the quantity and quality of the products: Table eggs, hatching eggs, broilers, ducks, geese, pigeons, turkeys and other type of poultry. The student should be able to plan a production and be able carry out a systematis analyse of the productions results. | |||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Practicals: On station feed trails, comparing balanced feed and cafeteria system under ad libitum and restricted conditions. Recording of feed intake, growth, laying percentage and behavior. Behavioral studies of poultry under normal conditions. Recording of egg shell thickness and percentage, albumun and yolk height and estimation og haugh units in relation to breeds and feeding. Selection and storing of hatching eggs, the hatching process, marking of newly hatched chicks, recording of weight, growth curves. Describing external anatomy and taxonomy of breeds and individual birds, e.g. the developement of plumage, the comb,digestive canal, distance between pubic bones and breast bone in relation to level of laying. On farm observation on behavior and egg production in a commercial free range farm system. Visits to commercial hatcheries and farms. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Lectures and project work based on results from practicals discussed in relation to the results in the scientific litteratur. | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| Poultry Production (1995) P. Hunton ed. Elsevier Nutrition and Feeding of Poultry (1994). M.Larbier and B. Leclercq. Nottingham University Press Nutrition of the Chicken(1982). Scott, Nesheim and Young. M.L. Scott and Associates, Ithaca, New York. Principles of Poultry Science (1997). S.P. Rose. CAB Internatinal. Poultry Production in Hot Climates, (1998). CAB International. Nutrient Requirement of Poultry, (1994)National Research Council. Skandinavisk Fjerkræstandard (1980). Danmarks Fjerkræavlerforening for Raceavl. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Hans Ranvig, har@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Production and Health, Phone: 35333090 | |||||||||||||
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| Study Committee AHJ | |||||||||||||
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