- Docente: Luca Sardi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: AGR/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 0487)
Learning outcomes
The student must know the situation of the major poultry production (broilers, laying hens and turkeys) and the rabbit production; the student must acquire knowledge concerning the phases of livestock as well as key aspects of nutrition and feeding of these species.
Course contents
Importance and situation of poultry production.
Breeds and hybrids of poultry
Hatching
Egg production (management of pullet and laying hens)
Production of poultry for slaughter
Importance and situation of rabbit production
Breeds and hybrids of rabbit
Management of pregnant and lactating does.
Production of rabbit for slaughter.
The rule of caecotrophy un rabbit nutrition
Readings/Bibliography
1) Broiler management guide Cobb 500 (1995). The Cobb Breeding Company, UK.
2) Guida alla conduzione degli incubatoi (1992). The Cobb Breeding Company, UK.
3) ROSS 308, parent stock management manual (2001). Aviagen Incorporated, USA www.aviagen.com
4) ROSS broiler management manual, Broiler 508 (2002). Aviagen Incorporated, USA.
5) Controllo di gestione in incubatoio (1998). Ross tech 98/35, Ross Italia S.R.L.
6) Colin G. Scanes, George Brant, M.E. Ensminger; "Poultry Science", Fourth Edition; Pearson Prentic Hall, Upper Saddel River-New Jersey, 2004.
7) Richard E. Austic, Malden C. Nesheim, "Poultry Production", Thirteen Edition; Lea&Febiger, United States, 1990.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309048923/html/9.html
8) Balasini Dialma, Zootecnia applicata – avicunicoli e allevamenti alternativi, Calderini Ed agricole, Bologna, 2001.
9) Gamberini Angelo, Coniglicoltura, Calderini Ed agricole, Bologna, 2001.
15) www.csiro.au/proprietaryDocuments/EuropeanRabbitIndustry.ppt
16) www.fao.org, The rabbit- husbandry, health and production, ISSN 1010-9021, FAO, 1997.
17) www.fao.org.WAINCENT/OIS/PRESS_NE/PRESSENG/2001/pren0157.htm
18) www.unionenazionaleavicoltura.it
19) www.unipi.it
20) NRC - Nutrient Requirements of Rabbits. Second Revised Edition, 1977.
21) Gidenne e Lebas, Role dietary fibre in rabbit nutrition and in digestive troubles prevention. 2nd Rabbit Congress of the America, Habana City, Cuba, June 19-22, 2002, 47-59.
22) Ismail A.M., Shalash S.M., Katby E.A., Cheeke P.R., patton n.M., Hypervitaminosis A in rabbits. Dose Response. J. Appl. Rabbit Res 15, 1992 b, 985-994.
23) Bernardini m., Dal Bosco A., Castellini C., miggiano G., Dietary vitamin E supplementation in rabbit: antioxidant capacity and meat qualità. In Proc. 6th World Rabbit Congress, Touluse, France, July 1996, vol. 3, 137-140.
24) Castellini C., dal Bosco A., Bernardini M., Cryl H.W. effect of dietary vitamin E on the oxidative stability of raw and cooked rabbit meat. Meat Science 50, 1998, 153-161.
25) Lebas F. Vitamins in rabbit nutrition: literature review and recommendations. World Rabbit Sciences, 8 (4), 2000, 185-192.
26) Maertens l., Huyghebeart G., De Groote G. digestibility and digestible energy content of various fats for growing rabbits. Cuni – Sciences, 3, 1986, 7-14.
27) Decreto legislativo n. 116 del 27-01-1992 e modifiche, Suppl. Ord. G.U. n. 40, 18-02-1992, www.oltrelaspecie.org
Assessment methods
Multiple choise test
Office hours
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