Animal Nutrition

Programme Information

• Programme Fee P2150.00(Local Training), P2450.00(Outreach Training)
• Programme Duration   5 days

Description

Animal nutrition is a short course aimed at providing farmers with knowledge and skills on livestock feeds and how they make livestock farming profitable. The course provides farmers with relevant skills on animal nutrition and enable them understand the linkage between the various ecosystems. The course also enlightens farmers to come up with beneficial methods of feeding their animals. It further provides farmers with hands-on experience and application techniques and skills to their daily operations.

Programme Outline

1. Orientation of the Module

2. Animal feed

3. Define animal nutrition.

4. Reasons for feeding animals.

5. Digestive System

6. Define Digestion.

7. Ruminant digestive system.

8. Non ruminant digestive system.

9. Sources of nutrients.

10. Understanding sources of nutrients.

11. Six types of nutrients and their purpose on the body.

12. Types of livestock feeds and their nutritional value.

13. Maintenance ration and Production ration.

14. Roughages and concentrates.

15. Nutritional requirements of ruminant animals

16. Animal Nutrition Assessment.

17. Nutritional diseases.

18. Identifying nutritional diseases affecting livestock, cause, symptoms

19. Control and preventative measures of the chosen diseases.