Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)
Sports and family pets
HUS1009
Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)
Sports and family pets
HUS1009
The course provides a basic introduction to nutrition and breeding work on horses and dogs.
The course provides a basic introduction to nutrition and breeding work on horses and dogs. The nutrition section emphasizes which feed materials and feeding practices ensure correct nutrition, but also good health based on the animal's physiology, activity and behaviour. A simple introduction to feed planning for horses is given in the form of practice tasks. The breeding section consists of a simple introduction to general livestock breeding, but is mainly centered around the organization of breeding work on sport and family pets here in Norway. Discuss health challenges as a consequence of breeding in an ethical perspective.
The subject is reserved for students of the following study programmes:
- Animal Welfare, One-year Programme
- Livestock Science, Bachelor's Programme
Other students can get admitted if there are places available. Contact student advisor.
Students must meet current admission requirements for the associated study program.
After completing the course, the student will have achieved the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge:
- know the distinctive features of the digestive system of horses and dogs
- have knowledge of which feed materials are suitable for horses and dogs
- know which measurement units are used to determine energy and protein in feed for horses and dogs
- have knowledge of the procedure for setting up a simple feed plan
- has general knowledge of the principles of breeding work on livestock
- have knowledge of how breeding work in Norway is organized for horse and dog breeds
- have knowledge of the most central health challenges for horses and dogs, and which biological conditions are the basis for ethical and welfare-related good keeping
Skills:
- can exchange views and contribute to a discussion on what constitutes proper keeping of horses and dogs
- can calculate nutrient requirements and calculate feed intake with a simple feed plan for horses
- can evaluate/interpret a forage analysis for use in a horse feed plan
General competence:
- can convey basic theory about the digestive system and correct feeding of horses and dogs
- can convey basic theory about horse and dog breeding
- can convey basic theory about central diseases in horses and dogs
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal. Deductibles may incur for some non mandatory excursions.
Elective course - can be replaced by another relevant subject.
Seminars, lectures, excursions, group assignments and assignments for submission.
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.
Compound assessment:
- Assessment task
- Compulsory participation
Both of the above are evaluated with approved or not approved. Both must be passed in order to attend the written examination.
- Oral exam - counts for 100% of the grade. Rating A-F.
Pen, ruler, up to 2 bilingual dictionaries and calculator.
Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.
It is a great advantage to have prior knowledge of HUS1005 Livestock anatomy and physiologi
Subject language
Norwegian
Credits
7.5
Study location
Steinkjer
Responsible faculty
Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture
Course coordinator
