Unit MANAGEMENT OF EXTENSIVE FARMING SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY
- Course
- Animal science
- Study-unit Code
- A003319
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Cesare Castellini
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
EXTENSIVE BREEDING OF MONOGASTRICI
| Code | A002063 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Cesare Castellini |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline zootecniche e delle produzioni animali |
| Academic discipline | AGR/20 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | To provide knowledge to operate within an extensive supply chain: in particular the adaptability of genetic strains, pasture management, quality and environmental impact. |
| Reference texts | Handouts Poultry Rabbit breeding -2010. Avicoltura e coniglicoltura. Le point Veterinarie, 2015. Meuret M. & Provenza F., The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders, 2015. Provenza F., Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom, 2018. Papers and slides showed during the course available on UNISTUDIUM |
| Educational objectives | KNOWLEDGE 1. The farming techniques of the main livestock species (mono and poly-gastric) 2. The main factors affecting the production of meat, milk and eggs 3. The most important quality characteristics of meat, milk and eggs 4. The main physiological mechanisms related to production and reproduction 5. Genotype-environment interaction 6 The main systems of traceability of products of animal origin 7. The effect of grazing and farming system on product quality 8. The main rules on quality and safety of food of animal origin 9. Environmental impact and its limitation SKILLS 1. Characterize the quality of products of animal origin 2. Identify the critical points of productive chains and methods for their improvement 3. Identify methods to improve the productive performance 4. Manage techniques of breeding with particular attention to the quality (e.g. nutrional traits) and animal welfare 5. Propose extensive farming systems to improve the environmental impact of animal breeding 6. Planning an extensive rearing system 7. Knowing how to take the traceability of livestock production systems 8. Apply simple analytical techniques for the verification of product quality BEHAVIORS 1. Be able to work in group 2. Demonstrate sensitivity to safety and quality of products |
| Prerequisites | The ability to make simple calculation and basic knowledge of biology, anatomy, physiology and rearing systems is required |
| Teaching methods | The course is organized as follows - lectures; - Laboratory exercises for the evaluation of the nutritional characteristics of the products; - Classroom exercises for bibliographic research of scientific articles; - Field experiences (rearing techniques, calculation of rations to reduce environmental impact, animal welfare and quality); Seminars with external experts; - Seminars carried out by small teaching / student working groups; - Classroom discussion of scientific/technical papers; - Foreign language activities. |
| Other information | The course is divided into 2 modules. Lectures will be held in DSA3 classrooms. Class attendance is facultative but recommended |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists in an oral examination, and/or in a discussion of individual or group presentation of about 30 min. aimed at ensuring the level of knowledge and understanding acquired by the student on the subjects of the course. The questions will be about the effect of the extensive rearing system on animal welfare, environmental impact, productive performance and the quality of production of mono and poly-gastric species. As a whole, the test will evaluate the students' communication and language skills, the ability to apply the acquired skills, and work out solving problems and solutions. Info on services to students with disabilities and DSA will be found on http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa website |
| Extended program | module I see "Extensive rearing system of monogastric animals" module II "Extensive rearing system of polygastric animals |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | 2, 3 and 8 |
EXTENSIVE BREEDING OF POLYGASTRIC
| Code | A002064 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Mariano Pauselli |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline zootecniche e delle produzioni animali |
| Academic discipline | AGR/19 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | To provide knowledge about the extensive and semi-extensive ruminant production systems and the different factors influencing them as the grazing systems used for the different reared species and their effects on products quality and environmental impact. |
| Reference texts | Meuret M. & Provenza F., The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders, 2015. Provenza F., Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom, 2018. Various material (papers and ppt) showed during the course and available on Unistudium |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge: The feeding behaviour in grazing animals and the physiological response to the nutrients and secondary compounds contained in the grazed plants. Effect of the environment on grazing animals Agrosilvopastoral systems and their description. The evaluation of the maintainable stocking rate and grazing strategies. Cattle, sheep, goat and deer extensive and semi-extensive rearing systems. Extensive ruminant rearing and environmental impact. Chemical and nutritional characteristics of meat, milk and dairy products from extensive reared ruminants. Interaction between domestic and wild animals in extensive rearing systems. Ability: Knowing how to design a grazing plan using satellite images from terrestrial remote sensing and drafting the respective technical report. Know how plan a semi-extensive or extensive ruminants breeding according to the available surfaces and draw up the respective technical report. Knowing how to identify the critical points in a semi-extensive or extensive production model and draw up the respective technical report. Knowing how to identify the factors that mostly influence the chemical and sensory characteristics of the products obtained in semi-extensive and extensive ruminant farming systems and draw up the respective technical report. Interpersonal skills: Be able to work in group. |
| Prerequisites | The ability to perform simple mathematical calculation and the basic knowledge of biology, physiology, ruminants farming systems and basis of agronomy and forage systems, are required. |
| Teaching methods | The course is organized as follows: Lecturers. Classroom exercises aiming to design a grazing plan using satellite images from terrestrial remote sensing. Classroom exercises aiming to plan a semi-extensive or extensive ruminants breeding according to the available surfaces. Classroom exercises aiming to to identify the critical points in a semi-extensive or extensive production model. Field experiences (Livestock rearing and management strategies). Seminars with external experts- Classroom discussion about material previously delivered by the teacher. English language activity. |
| Other information | The course will be held in DSA3 classrooms. Frequence is facultative but recommended |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists in an oral examination, based on the discussion of a group technical report and answers to questions aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge and understanding acquired by the student on the subjects of the course. As a whole, the test will evaluate the students' communication and language skills, the ability to apply the acquired skills, and work out solving problems and solutions. For information on support services for students affected by disabilities and SLD visit the webpage: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Extended program | Lectures/webnars Introduction (0.6 FCU) Major constrains in modern agricultural and livestock production systems (food demand growth with particular reference to livestock products, urbanization rate, environmental impact of agriculture and livestock production systems, the role of forage systems on soil fertility and livestock farming systems, livestock food characteristics and human health implications): Forage nutritive characteristics (0.4 FCU): Nutritive characteristics in different plant families and species. Secondary compounds in grass, forbs shrubs and tree leaves: the role of polyphenolic compounds. Plant fatty acid composition. Ruminants feeding behavior (0.6 FCU) Methods of transmission of knowledge. Feed preferences in ruminants and factors that affected them. Grazing ruminant behavior. Physiological implication in ruminant grazing behavior. The effect of the environment on ruminant physiology (0.4 FCU). The study of a pastoral system (0.4 FCU) A brief introduction to phytosociology as instrument to evaluate the landscape richness of plant species. The pastoral value of a natural grassland: description and calculation The EU Habitat directive with particular reference to H6210 and 6250. The grazing stocking rate evaluation and different grazing systems description and implication (0.4 FCU) The evaluation of stoking rate in grazed grasslands Rotational grazing systems in grasslands and extensive farms. The virtual fencing. Extensive farming systems (1FCU): Dairy cow extensive farming management in different agro ecological systems (lowlands and highlands). Cow-calf farming systems. Grass-fed beef production Dairy sheep and meat sheep management in different landscape. Goat management in different landscape Deer farming. Chemical and Nutritional characteristics of extensive farmed ruminant products (0.6 FCU). Milk and dairy products: - Fatty acids composition. - Vitamin composition. - Volatile compounds composition. - Traceability. Beef and lamb and deer meat quality. - Organoleptic characteristics. - Fatty acid composition - Vitamin composition - Traceability. Relationship between wild animals and farmed animals in semi-extensive and extensive farming systems (0.2 FCU). Practical Lessons (1,4 FCU): Grazing plan designing using satellite imagines from terrestrial remote sensing Ruminants Farming systems planning. Critical Control point evaluation in extensive farming systems. Quality parameters of livestock products from extensive farming systems evaluation. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development traceable to the Course can be summarized as combating poverty and hunger and producing quality food that ensures the well-being of populations while respecting environmental protection and the welfare of farmed animals |