Advanced Animal Nutrition

Module Details

• NQF Level8
• Credits24
• Typecore

Description & Prerequisites

Animal-environment and genotype-environment interactions and their impacts on natural resources; functional management of intensive and extensive livestock production systems; monograstric and ruminant digestive processes and feed flow dynamics and the manipulation of digestion; metabolism of the end products of digestion; computer systems applications for animal feed requirements and nutrient standards; specialised feeding; the principle of ad libitum and controlled feed intake in feed formulations and management.