RUMINANT NUTRITION & METABOLISM

ANSCI/DYSCI 825

Focuses on calf and heifer nutrition, regulation of dry matter intake, plant and forage chemistry, vitamins, lipids, and starch.

FISC 114

Students will learn practical nutrition for lactating dairy cows, dairy heifers, and dairy beef. This course covers digestion and nutrient metabolism, milk synthesis and ration formulation guidelines and stresses importance of quality forage in the feeding program. Students will learn the basic anatomy and physiology of the digestive system of ruminant animals and how feeding and management are geared toward optimizing rumen function. This course will introduce the basic concepts of nutrition and how feeds provide nutrients and basic skills necessary for feeding dairy cattle. Students will learn how to assess animal performance and adequacy of the feeding program through evaluating intake, body condition, and transition cow health and learn how to feed and manage growing ruminants.

DYSCI 210

Principles and practices of dairy nutrition and management. Explore various aspects of dairy farm operations, including dairy cattle nutrition, herd health, and farm diagnostics. Participation in team based dairy farm diagnostics.

ANSCI/DYSCI 824

Focuses on rumen microbiology, metabolite modeling, as well as protein and VFA nutrition and metabolism.

ANSCI/DYSCI/NUTRSCI 311

Nutrients and their assimilation, function, and interactions that affect metabolism in mammals. Differences among species will be used to emphasize unique digestive and physiological functions and how these differences affect metabolism of nutrients. Humans will be used in some comparisons. Follows physiological progression of nutrients, starting with an overview of the digestive tract followed by water and builds on specific roles of nutrients and substrates needed to provide basic processes required for maintenance, tissue accretion, and homeostatic regulation of nutrients.