VET346: Veterinary Nutrition and Animal Toxicology

This unit will provide students with an opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of feeds and feeding, ration formulation for livestock, the nutritional biochemistry of vitamins and minerals, the practical nutrition of farm and companion animals, metabolic diseases, the interaction of nutrients, toxins, and anti-nutrients, the evolutionary strategies of poisonous plants. The unit includes examples of nutrition and toxicology in practice from representatives from the feed and livestock industry. Several components of this unit will be presented as workshops.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 4 hours per week; tutorials/workshops/seminars: 2 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Enrolment in Veterinary Biology. VET241 Veterinary Biochemistry or BMS261 Human and Comparative Biochemistry or BIO270 Biochemistry I.
School	School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Unit Coordinator	Dr Caroline Jacobson Position: Lecturer E-mail: C.Bath@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Veterinary Biology Room 2.038 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2654
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Dr Caroline Jacobson Lecturer (C.Bath@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2654 Murdoch Campus Veterinary Biology Room 2.038 MURDOCH S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)