Characteristics of breeding in marginal areas. Types of stalls. Grazing techniques; dimensioning of the load of livestock. Managing the rearing of cattle, sheep, goats and buffaloes for meat and milk in marginal areas, management of reproduction and rearing of different categories of calves. Breeding and management of pigs outdoor main breeds raised is that rustic improved. Structures and properties of pig breeding outside.
To instruct the students with knowledge on the criteria and techniques most suitable for breeding management of domestic species, for use or recovery of agricultural and forestry areas marginalized.
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 100
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 48
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours): 0
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 18
Seminars (hours): 0
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab: not mandatory but strongly recommended.
Type of Assessment
Oral
Course program
Kind and characteristics of the breedings in marginal zones. Types of stabling: costs and characteristics to comparison between intensive breeding and extensive breeding.
Pastures: techniques of pasture; sizing of the load of livestock.
Cattle: principal races of meat and milk type; techniques for the breeding in marginal zones, characteristics of the productions. Sign on the breeding of the bubalus bubalus for the exploitation of the swampy zones.
Breeding of the sheep: races Italian sheep of milk and meat type. Kind of breeding, pastures and amelioration of the pastures. Breeding, birth and presence to the birth. Structures for the breeding sheep.
Breeding of the goat: principal races of milk and meat goats. Alimentary characteristics of the goats.
Breeding of the swine to the open: principal races foster be rustic that reformed. Structures and characteristics of the breeding of swine to the open. Some examples.