It is intended that students acquire basic training in the fields of poultry, swine, rabbit, horse, and bee production. It is also intended that students become aware, though short, of other opportunities in the area of animal production: Snail farming; frog culture; aquaculture, species recently "domesticated" and game farming.
POULTRY PRODUCTION
Overview of poultry in the European Union and the world
Systematic
Comfort factors of birds
Social order or dominance in birds
Light in aviaries
Beds
Broiler production
The egg
Pullet production
Egg production
RABBIT BREEDING
The rabbits in the European Union and Mediterranean countries
Rabbit Biology
Special features anatomical and physiological
General management
Swine production
Reproduction
Management
Lactation
Feeding management
Horse production, herpetology and aquaculture
BEEKEEPING
The Bee
From the slum to the mobile hive
Types of hives: advantages and disadvantages.
Beehive components
Swarming
Technical Working Capital
Loot
“Cresta”
Products with commercial interests
Pollination
Enemies and diseases
UNCONVENTIONAL ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Production of recently domesticated animal species
The hunting resources
Game Farming
The main methods of teaching are the explanation and exposition of the theoretical foundations of the previous syllabus of the course considering its multiple structuring elements, using the broadest possible range of teaching resources, including those offered by new communication technologies, information and research, to develop students' research skills, reasoning, imagination, sensitivity to the essence of the theme studied and critical and innovative formulation proposals for new solutions to some of the issues studied.
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