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AGRI13014 Animal Nutrition

Animal Nutrition

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General Information

Overview

Nutrition is vital for the care and husbandry of animals. With livestock, it is important to know how to feed animals adequately so that they grow and reproduce at rates which are economically sound so that an enterprise functions in a sustainable manner. This unit is designed to equip you with the practical application of nutritional principles in ruminant and monogastric production systems. Animal nutrition focuses on digestion, absorption, and metabolism of feed and how the different dietary nutrients are used to maintain life or assimilated into products. In order for a feed to be consumed and utilised by an animal, it has to be palatable, digestible, absorbable and metabolisable to be utilised into energy and structural components. You will develop an understanding of this series of events while covering a range of animals (ruminants and simple-stomached). This unit also covers the constituents of feed and the capacity of the different classes of feeds to supply the animal with nutrients to meet its requirements for maintenance, growth, and production, as well as various processing of feed so that it is safer, more palatable and more nutritious.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate

Unit Level: Level 3

Credit Points: 6

Student Contribution Band: 7

Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Completion of 48 credit points.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2026

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).