UCL - Tropical zootechnology

[BRAI2104]

[30h + 0h] 3 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Jean-Paul Dehoux

Language: French

Level: Second

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Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Introduction to the tropical animal husbandry by studying the interactions between the animals, the man and their environment.

Main themes

This course develops the different aspects of the livestock in tropical area. The importance of the animals for the pastoral populations in a difficult economic and climatic context is lengthily approached through numerous examples illustrating the important diversity of this tropical world. The adaptation and qualities of the principal tropical domestic animals interesting for the man are developed while studying in addition to the traditional livestock, those of the mini-livestock. All the problems of the food and the watering of the livestock are studied. The tropical livestock systems (from the most extensive to the most intensive) are defined. Lastly, the study of the principal tropical diseases (glossina/trypanosomosa and ticks/parasitic blood) closes this course.

Content and teaching methods

Oral lecture using projections (power point), slides as well as movies on the various topics of the course (food and watering, tropical races, systems of breeding and pathology) by approaching critical examples of the characteristics and possibilities for improvement of various animal production systems in the Tropics (e.g. pastoralism, agro-pastoralism, ranching, )

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Precursory courses Animal physiology, animal production
Supplemental courses Food of domestic animals
Evaluation Oral examination after written preparation
Support Power point and PDF (iCampus)