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Lecturer(s)
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Poborská Anna, Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Sense and perspectives of livestock production. Process of origination, phylogeny and domestication of animal with regards to their future utilization. Categories of animal, theory of breed and lower taxonomic and breeders entities. Characteristic and classification of traits and features, biological principles of morphological traits - exterior, carcass, hair, pigmentation or colouring. Biological principles of physiological traits - constitution (habit), condition, reproduction, growth and development, eyrly maturity, meat and milk production and others. Basic components of breeding work. Genetic parametersof traits and features by individual and population. Breeding value and sources for its estimation. Principles of theory of selection - genetic improvement and its factors, means, forms, selection modes, methods of selection and their utilization. Classification of methods, used in animal breeding, sense and use of single forms, including methods of hybridization. Substance of selection and hybridization methods.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Monitoring, Projection
- Preparation for classes
- 40 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 50 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 40 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to give teoretical principles of farm animal husbandry with delimination of their relationship to economic usability for different types of production.
Student will acquire basic knowledge about animal husbandry, performance and terminology.
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Prerequisites
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Highschool knowledge of biological science.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Combined exam, Test
Understanding the nature and possibilities of directing the basic biological traits of farm animals in order to its optimal use in individual technologies applied in practical farming. With the requirements required for successful completion of the course, students are introduced at the beginning of the semester.
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Recommended literature
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Hajič F., Čítek J., Košvanec K. Obecná zootechnika. Jihočeská univerzita, 1995. ISBN 80-7040-148-6.
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Hajič F., Košvanec K. Obecná zootechnika : Cvičení . Jihočeská univerzita, 1998. ISBN 80-7040-322-5.
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Litwińczuk Z., Szulc T. Hodowla i uźytkowanie bydla. Pa´nstwowe Wydawnictwo Rolnicze i Leśne, 411 s., 2005. ISBN 83-09-01794-4.
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Majzlík I., Hofmanová B., Vostrý L. Základy obecné zootechniky. Praha, 2012. ISBN 978-80-213-2286-8.
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Majzlík I. Chov zvířat I. Praha, 104 s., 2002. ISBN 80-213-0641-6.
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Simm G., Villanueva B., Sinclair K.D., Townsend S. Farm animal genetic resources. Nottingham University Press, 360 s., 2004. ISBN 1-897676-15-8.
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Szulc T. Chów i hodowla zwierzat. Wroclaw, 408 s., 2005. ISBN 83-89189-77-1.
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