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Apr 19, 2024
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2019 - 2020 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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VETS 270 - Applied Clinical Nutrition Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 218
Restriction(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
An elective course designed to introduce students to applied animal nutrition. The course covers basic nutrition for both ruminant and simple-stomach animals. Students learn how nutrition affects the animal patient and causes or impacts animal conditions.
Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:
- Explain the principles of physiology of digestion in both the simple stomach and ruminant animal.
- Explain the fundamental principles of clinical nutrition of domestic animals.
- Perform calculations for nutrient requirements, cost per feeding analysis, nutrient content of feeds and basic feeding programs.
- Perform dietary formulations of balanced diets for a variety of species at various stages of life cycles.
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