Ruminant Nutrition

Ruminant Nutrition - Online

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Course curriculum

1. Using the platform video function
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2. Working your way around the screen, chapters and lessons
3. What you will go away with on completion of this course
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4. How to make the most of your learning
5. Modules in this course
6. Some Important Information
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1. What Will You Go Away With?
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2. Setting the Context - A message from your instructor Dr Terry McCosker
3. How this module fits in to your learning journey
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4. Welcome and introduction
1. Introduction to module 1
2. The Foundations
3. The Four Key Concepts
1. What is a Feed Curve?
2. The 7 step simple process used in going back to basic and first principles
3. Summing up - Feed Curves
4. The foundations
1. Why Do I Need to Create a Feed Curve?
2. How Do I Go About Creating a Feed Curve?
3. Downloadable Feed Curve Spreadsheet - option 1
4. Downloadable Paper Version of a Feed Curve - option 2
5. Filling In Your Spreadsheet - Step 1 (option 1)
6. Step 2 - using the spreadsheet (option 1)
7. Step 3 - using the spreadsheet (option 1)
8. Step 4 - using the spreadsheet (option 1)
9. Filling in the Data on Your Feed Curve Spreadsheet - a step through video
10. Filling In Your Paper Table - Step 1 (option 2)
11. Step 2 - using the paper table (option 2)
12. Step 3 - using the paper table (option 2)
13. Creating Your Own Feed Curves
1. What is a nutritional season?
2. Why do I need to insert my nutritional seasons?
3. How to Insert Nutritional Seasons Into Your Feed Curve
4. Define Your Nutritional Seasons - descriptors and guide
5. Still Not Sure How To Fill In the Table?
6. Filling in the Data on Your Feed Curve Spreadsheet - a step through video TEMPERATE Nutritional Season example
7. Filling in the Data on Your Feed Curve Spreadsheet - a step through video TROPICAL Nutritional Season example
8. Examples of Temperate and Tropical Nutritional Seasons - if you have used the spreadsheet (option 1)
9. If Using the Paper Template - option 2
10. Creating Your Own Nutritional Seasons -Temperate climate
11. Creating Your Own Nutritional Seasons -Tropical climate
1. Basis of Nutrition
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2. The Fundamental Source of Nutrition
3. The Role of Grazing in Nutrition
4. C3 Plants versus C4 Plants
5. The Difference Between C3 and C4 Grasses
6. Basis of all Nutrition
1. The Sigmoid Curve Explained
2. Grass Growth and Phases (Sigmoid Curve)
3. Plant Growth
4. Animals Can Starve in Either Phase I or III
5. Grass Growth and Phases (Sigmoid Curve)
1. Linking Grass Phases to Dung
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2. Linking Grass Phases to the Dung - the best diagnostic tool
3. Cattle – Phase I Illustration
4. Cattle – Phase II Illustration
5. Cattle – Phase III Illustration
6. Cattle – Phase III plus supplementing nitrogen Illustration
7. Sheep Phase II Illustration
8. Sheep Phase III Illustration
9. Supplementation Versus Substitution
10. Grass Growth and Phases - Sigmoid Curve
11. Linking Grass Phases to the Dung
1. Summary and actions
2. Actions
3. Ruminant Nutrition Workbook for module 1
4. Your Action Plan - time for reflection
5. Your module 1 actions
6. Your Actions - review
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1. Introduction to module 2
2. Introduction
1. Nutrient Groups and Rumen Basics
2. Nutrient Groups and Rumen Basics
3. The four-part stomach
4. 3 types of herbivore stomachs
5. Life inside a functioning rumen
6. Chemistry inside the rumen - some warnings
7. Microbial protein
8. The essential nutrients for nutrition
9. Rumen Design and Function Introduction
10. Nutrient Groups and Rumen Basics
1. Increasing Production with Water Quality
2. Water sources for ruminants
3. Why water is so important
4. Water intake
5. Temperature impacts
6. Influences on water intake - cattle
7. Influences on water intake - sheep
8. Impact of high temperatures
9. Some other points to remember in regard to water intake
10. Water quality and pH
11. Changing water quality with magnets
12. Determining water requirements
13. Increasing Production with Water Quality
1. Energy Part A - Linking Energy and Digestibility of Feed to Performance
2. What is Energy?
3. The importance of energy
4. Energy from supplements
5. Estimates of energy requirements for different livestock classes
6. Sources of energy
7. Dry matter digestibility
8. Intake
9. Dry Matter Intake
10. Digestible energy
11. Dry Matter Digestibility % (DMD)
12. The significance of small changes in digestibility
13. Digestibility is a great lever
14. So, if we change the inputs...
15. Difference in energy
16. Energy Part A- Linking Energy and Digestibility of Feed
1. Energy Part B - Using the Pathway of Energy for Greatest Production
2. Gross Energy
3. Gross Energy - continued
4. Net energy
5. Net energy - continued
6. Net energy and feed quality
7. The partitioning of energy
8. Feed budgeting
9. Feed not budgeted
10. Avoiding drought situations
11. Drought feeding
12. Energy feeding
13. Summary
14. Energy Part B- Using the Pathway of Energy for Greatest Production
1. Ruminant Nutrition Workbook for module 2
2. Summary and actions
3. Your module 2 actions
4. Summary cards for reference
5. Where to From Here
1. Introduction to module 3
1. Rumen Degradable Protein
2. The Terry McCosker Experience
3. Rumen Degradable Protein Introduction
1. Rumen Degradable Protein Part A - Theory
2. Rumen degradable protein (RDP)
3. Why use RDP?
4. Feeding RDP
5. Crude protein
6. Protein: Energy
7. Pathway of protein through the rumen
8. Pathway of protein through the rumen - examined
9. Pathways - further examination
10. Non-protein nitrogen
11. Nitrogen
12. Ammonia
13. When should we feed rumen degradable protein?
14. Non-protein nitrogen (NPN) supplementation
15. Factors affecting urea based supplement intake
16. Recommended amounts of supplement
17. Urea poisoning
18. Urea and fertility
19. Knowing when to feed and why
20. Digestible organic matter:Crude protein
21. Too much legume in the diet
22. RDP and Increased Stocking Rate
23. Utilisation of plant proteins in the ruminant animal
24. Rumen Degradable Protein Part A - Theory
1. Rumen Degradable Protein Part B - Practical Aspects
2. Practical aspects of feeding rumen degradable protein
3. Diagnosing protein and energy deficiencies using NIRS - Faecal NIRS as a diagnostic tool
4. Faecal sampling technique
5. Drying techniques
6. Submitting a NIRS sample
7. What does NIRS tell me? - Digestible crude protein % (DCP)
8. What does NIRS tell me? - Faecal nitrogen concentration %
9. What does NIRS tell me? - Non grass in the diet
10. Where to send faecal samples (Australia)
11. Forms of feeding RDP
12. Water medication
13. Examples of Water Medicators
14. To treat alkaline water
15. Water medication
16. Molasses
17. Mixes and feeders
18. Lick Blocks
19. Loose Licks
20. Examples of Loose Mix “Home Brews”
21. Some Ideas for Sheep Troughs
22. Some Ideas for Cattle Troughs
23. More Ideas for troughs
24. Summary
25. Rumen Degradable Protein Part B - Practice
1. The McCosker Brew
2. The McCosker Brew- cattle
3. The McCosker Brew- sheep
4. Rule number one for using the “McCosker Brew”
5. Rule number two for using the “McCosker Brew”
6. Rule number three for using the “McCosker Brew”
7. Rule number four for using the “McCosker Brew”
8. Rule number five for using the “McCosker Brew”
9. Rule number six for using the “McCosker Brew”
10. Rule number seven for using the “McCosker Brew”
11. Lupins or whole cottonseed
12. Planned intakes of “Brew” and Trough Space
13. Summary
14. The McCosker Brew
1. Ruminant Nutrition Workbook for module 3
2. Summary and actions
3. Your module 3 actions
4. Your action plan
1. Link to Access Modules 4 to 6

About this course

$440.00
201 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

Course reviews

Rumen Design and Function

Maree Redman

Very well explained and interesting

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Introduction to Ruminant Nutrition

James & Elaine Croft

Easy to follow, clear, sequential and well-presented information equally suited to a first-timer as a refresher for a long term practitioner- something to le...

Easy to follow, clear, sequential and well-presented information equally suited to a first-timer as a refresher for a long term practitioner- something to learn for everyone

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Ruminant Nutrition - Full Course

Marcos Sapiro

Thank you so much Dr Terry for all the information given. It has been very helpful doing the course to decide when/how and what to supply in the dry season.

I had the recipe of urea from a producer that has been using it for years now, and I knew it even before starting the course, but I refused to give my stock something that I don’t understand. That‘s why I wanted to do the Ruminant Nutrition Course.

Now I’m confident I have the key points thanks to you and your team, and also the possibility to ask questions once in action. It’s very important to get rid of some doubts that comes from observing the behaviour of animals when supplying urea.

Once again thank you so much for everything. I really like the course and also would recommend it to anyone that wants to supply urea or know about nutrition.

Well done!

Best Regards,
Marcos Sapiro, Ascuncion, Paraguay

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