Teaching Methodologies
– Expository methodology for the presentation of theoretical concepts
– Monitoring of practical cases that illustrate the subjects presented and allow the perception by the students of the application of the concepts enunciated
– Analysis of articles, viewing of videos and case studies
– Contact with ESAC’s farm and others nearby.
Learning Results
1. Identify the various actors, potentials and existing constraints in the beef cattle production process;
2. Know different evaluating methods of beef cattle, with a view to their use as breeders;
3. Equate different beef cattle production systems, given different feed conditions and the particular objectives of those involved in the production process.
Program
1 – Breeds and production objectives
– Main breeds used, autochthonous and allochthonous, for beef production;
– Types of farms and agents involved in the beef production chain;
– Beef production reality in the national and global market.
2 – Animal growth and development
– Weight growth and differential growth;
– Precocity applied to beef production;
– Relation between the concepts of animal growth and development and precocity of beef breeds and its consequences for the meat quality and production costs;
3 – Rationalization of beef cattle production systems
– Methods of phenotypic evaluation and valuation;
– Importance of record keeping at beef farm level;
– Articulation of fodder availabilities with the attainment of objectives;
– Annual planning of the reproductive and feed management, considering the need to rationalize the beef cattle production system.
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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– Ellies-Oury, Jean-, M-P. e Hocquette, F. (2018). La chaîne de la viande bovine: production, transformation, valorisation et consummation. Lavoisier Tec & Doc.
– Carbó, C. B. (1998). Vacuno de carne: aspectos claves. Ediciones Mundi-Prensa.
– Kerth, C. R. (Ed.). (2013). The science of meat quality. Wiley-Blackwell.
– Lawrence, T. L. J. e Fowler, V. R. (2002). Growth of Farm Animals. Second edition. CABI Publisher.
– Lonergan, S. M.; Topel, D. G. e Marple, D. N. (2019). The Science of Animal Growth and Meat Technology. Second Edition. Academic Press. Elsevier.
– Picard, B. e Lebret, B. (2015). Le muscle et la viande (numéro spécial), INRA Productions Animales, volume 28, número 2. Disponível online