Subject: Animal Science
Credit units: 3
Offered: Term 1 only
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 3 Practicum/Lab hours
College: Agriculture and Bioresources
Department: Animal and Poultry Science

Provides senior undergraduate students with an understanding of the management, feeding and productivity of the breeding beef herd. Includes both summer grazing and winter feeding management. Emphasizes the effect of climate on management and feed requirements; environmental impacts of grazing; stocking rates; plant palatability, preference and selection; nutritional behaviour; nutrient cycling and energy flow; interactions with wildlife; ingestion of toxic plants.

Prerequisite(s): ANSC 315; or permission of the instructor.
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