Subject:
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Credit units:
2
Offered:
College:
Western College of Vet Med
Department: Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Description
The course will cover nutrition basics, evaluation of the equine diet, ration formulation, and the interpretation of nutrient analyses. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the role diet can play in various diseases (nutritional and non-nutritional diseases) and will gain confidence in advising clients on diet selection to prevent or treat nutritional diseases. Hands-on labs will include gross inspection of feed and body condition scoring of horses. Topics will include feed identification and forage analysis, ration analysis, life stage feeding, and feeding to prevent and/or treat specific nutritional diseases, such as equine metabolic syndrome, gastric ulcer syndrome, laminitis, myopathies, and refeeding syndrome.
Restriction(s): Successful completion of Year 2 of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program.
Note: This is a Year 3 elective for students in the D.V.M. program.
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