Swine breeds. Outdoor and indoor breeding, breeding strategies, mating, pregnancy, parturition (delivery) neonatal cure, suckling. Feeding.Slaughter technology and yields, carcass classification.Production of quality.Quality and defects of the meat.
Races of poultry and commercial hybrids.
Feeding and breeding of meat chickens, pullets and hens in rustic and industrial breeding.Market of the eggs and the meat poultry.Management of the breeding for the reproduction of the chickens. Incubator.
Textbooks: Available butteries beside the teacher
G. BITTANTE e al. Tecniche di produzione animale Ed. Liviana Padova.(Bibl. Fac. Agraria);
Pier Giorgio MONETTI – Allevamento dei bovini e dei suini. Ed. Giraldi
Learning Objectives
Knolewdge acquired: characteristics of the breedings of swine and poultry.
Competence acquired (at the end of the course): Technology and strategies of breeding and feeding.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): Breeding management.
Prerequisites
Knowledges of general zootecnica and animal feeding are recommended
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 225
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 153
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 43
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab: although non obligatory, is strongly recommended.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
Local swine and improved breeds.
Outdoor and indoor breeding, breeding strategies, artificial and natural mating, pregnancy, parturition (delivery), neonatal cure, suckling. Swine breeding technology. Growth and fattening. Feeding. Slaughter technology and yields, carcass classification. Production of quality. Quality and defects of the meat.
Races of poultry and commercial hybrids.
Feeding and breeding of meat chickens.
Feeding of pullets and hens in rustic and industrial breeding. Adaptation to the climatic conditions. Butchery and marketing.
Market of the eggs and the meat poultry. Management of the breeding for the reproduction of the chickens. Incubator