In order to pass the course, the student must have active participation in lectures and practical training. The prerequisite for passing the examination is the preparation and defence of a seminar paper on the topic assigned by the supervisor (in the range A-E), which is the result of self-study. The examination is awarded on the basis of an assessment of the knowledge acquired (in the A-E range).

The aim of the course is to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the regulation of feed intake, digestion processes and nutritional management of intermediary metabolism processes in relation to production, health and reproduction in animals. Effect of feed on morphological and functional development of GIT digestive disorders and nutritional prevention. Recognition and assessment of the impact of metabolic burden in organ disorders in animals and clinical nutrition options for their modification. Breeding and nutritional disorders, nutritional and metabolic load of the organism, application and overcoming of compensatory mechanisms - mechanism of occurrence and clinical manifestation of disease - metabolic, production diseases; - diagnosis, - therapy, - nutritional prevention.

Evaluation of health safety of feed and feed rations in terms of nutritional, health and ecological impact, legislative standards of production. Biological control of phase nutrition in terms of nutritional saturation of growth and development, level and quality of production, stage of reproduction, climatic and technological effects of housing in relation to species and breed of animals. Analysis of nutritional and breeding disorders, nutritional and metabolic load of the organism, management of compensatory mechanisms of metabolism, metabolic load and pathogenesis of production and health disorders, diagnosis, nutritional prevention of disorders and formation of productive health of food animals. Biological control of phase nutrition of animals, analysis of feed ration composition, evaluation of nutrient concentration and intake, effect on rumen and intermediary metabolism, interaction of nutrients and their metabolic transformation in terms of manifestation of nutritional, production and health burden. Application of clinical nutrition principles in the correction of nutritional and metabolic stresses in domestic animals.

Vajda et al.: Biological control of the level of nutrition in dairy cattle breeding, 2007

Vajda, Maskaľová: Feed quality assessment and production health.2016

Green M., et al. 2012: Dairy herd health. CABI org, UK by CPI Group, p. 312, ISBN 978-1-84593-997-7

Buffington; Holloway; Abood: Manual of veterinary dietetics, St. Louis : Saunders, 2004

Raymond J. Geor& Pat Harris & Manfred Coenen: Equine Applied and Clinical Nutrition, 2013

Conditions for completion of course:

In order to pass the course, the student must have active participation in lectures and practical training. The prerequisite for passing the examination is the preparation and defence of a seminar paper on the topic assigned by the supervisor (in the range A-E), which is the result of self-study. The examination is awarded on the basis of an assessment of the knowledge acquired (in the A-E range).