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An animal's health and well being depends upon what they eat. For anyone concerned with animals, whether managing pets, farm animals or wildlife, this course can provide extremely useful insights that can help you do a better job caring for animals. The animals in your care will enjoy better health and quality of life, and you'll save yourself from potentially costly mistakes.

The Feeding Animals Short Course is a 20 hour self guided course that will help you understand the fundamentals of what is required for animal feeding and proper nutrition. Whether you own animals as pets, care for animals professionally or have farm animals, this course will guide you through the many different and important considerations for effective animal nutrition. 

 

Lessons covered in this short course:
HOW TO WORK THROUGH THIS COURSE
LESSON 1 INTRODUCTION TO FEEDING ANIMALS AND INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES

Eating and drinking anatomical adaptations
Classification of animals – mode of feeding or feed types
Mode of feeding classification
Digestive systems – general and specialised
Recent animal feed industry concerns 
Industry opportunities and employment 
Working in animal feed industries 
Review what you have been learning

LESSON 2 THE COMPOSITION OF FEED
Feed analysis 
Classification of feed stuffs & animal protein sources 
Protein 
Carbohydrate 
Fibre
Fats (lipids) 
Vitamins 
Minerals 
Review what you have been learning 

LESSON 3 FORAGE 

Composition of plant tissues as an animal food 
Terms used to describe aspects of feed quality 
Pasture / grass 
Pasture hays 
Silage 
Root crops 
Trees for fodder 
Review what you have been learning

LESSON 4 CONCENTRATES 
Review what you have been learning

LESSON 5 FEED ADDITIVES
Review what you have been learning

LESSON 6 MANAGING FEED PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY
Hay and silage production
Grassland management – promoting the health of the pasture 
Grassland management – promoting the nutritional intake of animals
Pasture management principles 
Hydroponic fodder production 
Managing feed supply 
Review what you have been learning 

LESSON 7 FEEDING SMALL COMPANION ANIMALS AND PETS
Dogs 
Cats 
Rodents
Rabbits 
Ferrets 
African pygmy hedgehog
Birds 
Fish 
Review what you have been learning 

LESSON 8 FEEDING LIVESTOCK
Browsers, grazers, intermediate feeders 
Pigs 
Chickens 
Cattle 
Sheep
Goats
Deer 
Alpacas 
Llamas 
Horses 
Feeding routines and procedures 
Review what you have been learning 

LESSON 9 FEEDING WILDLIFE 
Reptiles
Amphibians 
Birds 
Mammals 
Pandas and their relatives 
Marsupials 
Lagomorphs and rodents 
Wild carnivores 
Ungulates 
Review what you have been learning 

LESSON 10 EATING AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS IN ANIMALS 
Review what you have been learning
Final assessment

 

 

How does this course work? 
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.

You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.

There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.

At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.

 

 



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