Practical Nutrition and Health of Livestock

BCFTA Nutrition Course : 17th September, Bristol

Accounts for 7 hours CPD

This course explains the practical elements of feeding animals: how to achieve maximum feed intake, and feed conversion to food; the feeding systems in use in the UK, and how to maximise production of food.

The course also explains the risks to the human food chain from feed contamination, and preventative measures needed to ensure the food produced from our livestock is safe.

• Voluntary Feed Intake
• Feed Conversion ratios
• Practical feeding – quantities and systems
• Raw materials used as feed
• Managing the threat from mycotoxins and other naturally occurring contaminants
• Animal Health = Human Health: The legislation and the future