1.1. Comparitive digestive physiology, evaluation
of digestibility
1.2
. Energy metabolism
1.3. Protein metabolism, amino acid balance, ideal
protein, measurement
of
protein quality
1.4. Factors affecting feed intake
1.5. Physiology of growth, carcass quality etc
1.6. Principles of feeding standards
1.7. Feeding and management of the sow and piglet
1.8. Feeding and management of growing pigs
1.9. High-fibre diets and unconventional feeds for
pigs and poultry
Course facilitators:
Course literature:
”Animal Nutrition”
(MacDonald, Edwards etc)
”Tropical Animal
Feeding” – Manual for Research Workers (FAO)
2.1. Introduction, background, international trends in production
and consumption etc
2.2. Pig production systems in developing countries, potentials and
constraints
2.3. Climatic effects on production and reproduction
2.4. Production systems (scavenging, semi-intensive, intensive),
integrated systems in SE
Asia (pigs-rice-fish-duckweed etc)
2.5. Product quality, economics and marketing
Course facilitators:
Course assistant:
Literature:
“Pigs”
D.Holness (The Tropical Agriculturalist Series)
“Feeding Pigs in the Tropics” (FAO)
3. Poultry Systems in the
Tropics
3.1. Introduction, background, production and consumption trends
3.2. Effects of tropical environments on egg production and growth etc
3.3. Environment-breed interactions, dual purpose breeds etc
3.4. Production systems for layers and meat birds:
3.4.1. Scavenging, improving productivity
3.4.2. Semi-intensive, deep-litter
3.4.3. Intensive systems - battery cages etc
3.5. Integrated duck systems in SE Asia
3.6. Product quality, economics and marketing
Course facilitators:
Brian Ogle, Bui Xuan Men (ducks)
Course assistant: