Livestock Nutrition

Catalog description

This course emphasizes the skills, techniques and concepts necessary for sound feeding management. Students engage in the practice of calculating feed values and pricing, as well as consumption requirements for livestock. Students also investigate necessary information from feed tag labels and base feeds as they create simulated feeding programs for specific livestock with special attention given to the metabolic diseases of lactating animals. Through the use of basic ration balancing concepts, students will be able to create simple rations for specified livestock.