Unit FARM ANIMAL MANAGEMENT: PRACTICAL WORK (BASIC COURSE)
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- 85009101
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Camillo Pieramati
- Teachers
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- Camillo Pieramati
- Hours
- 25 ore - Camillo Pieramati
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Altro
- Area
- Altre conoscenze utili per l'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro
- Academic discipline
- NN
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Knowledge of the main characteristics of an animal farm and of food administration to livestock.
- Reference texts
- No specific reference text needed.
- Educational objectives
- Acquisition of basic knowledge about the organization and management of a domestic animal's farm.
- Prerequisites
- Students must have complied with the D. Lgs. 81/2008 course. No specific skills required to acquire basic knowledge on the management of farm animals stables and about the way to approach different domestic animals.
- Teaching methods
- Introductory frontal lecture and practical lessons. It 'strongly stimulated the interaction student - teacher / tutor to clarify animal practical management and execution, by the students, of the manual tasks related to animal cleaning, handling and feeding.
- Other information
- Student must comply with farm policy.
- Learning verification modality
- Written examination: multiple choice tests. It is planned a suitability evaluation.
- Extended program
- The students following the first year courses of the Veterinary curriculum, divided into small groups, attend for five days the teaching farm to develop the specified daily activities.
Monday: frontal lecture to explain the daily activities, farm overview and acquisition of information on the sheep barn, breeds present, sanitary status of groups, and within groups, health conditions of individuals, any test in progress. (5 hours)
Tuesday: tour of the sheep barn control, registration of news, cooperation to the food supply with particular attention to possible different types of integration with reference to specific research, treatment of individual subjects. Acquiring information on bovine herd; total number of animals, number of calves, the health status of individuals, check of the reproductive apparatus. (5 hours)
Wednesday: cattle barn control, identification of subjects to be fertilized, cooperation in drug administration. Acquiring information about horses present in the farm. (5 hours)
Thursday: visual inspection of horses present in the paddocks, cooperation to the breading activities when possible, cooperation to the drug administration. Acquiring information on pigs. (5 hours)
Friday: pigs visual inspection, registration of news , participation in food administration and drug treatments. (5 hours)
Execution of final evaluation test (5 hours)