Unit Code: ANP601

Unit Name: Physiology of Farm Animals

Description: Digestive physiology of monogastric and polygastric animals. Reproductive physiology of farm animals; hormones present in the biological fluids during pregnancy and their uses for the diagnosis of pregnancy. Lactation in farm animals.Biochemical and genetic determinants of growth, regulation of growth, metabolic and hormone interactions, factors affecting the efficiency of growth and production in ruminants and single stomach animals. Animal behaviour/ethology: neurophysiology of behaviour, types of behaviour, communication, learning and memory, behavioural plasticity, the study of different types of behaviour based on activities of the animal. Temperature regulation in animals. Acclimation: general adaptive syndrome.Thermoregulation in farm animals.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1.2.1 evaluate the complexity of digestion in simple stomach animals and ruminants. 1.2.2 evaluate the complexity of endocrinology and reproductive physiology 1.2.3 evaluate the lactation mechanism in farm animals 1.2.4 evaluate prenatal and postnatal animal growth, thermoregulation in farm animals and impact on animal behaviour 1.2.5 evaluate thermoregulation in farm animals and impact on animal behaviour

Prerequisite: N/A - Students must be enrolled into the programme

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1