Department of Animal Nutrition and Husbandry

Characteristics of the department

The Department of Animal Nutrition and Husbandry is a specialised workplace providing education and scientific research activities in the field of nutrition and nutritional prevention of metabolic disorders and also in the field of breeding farm and companion animals. It focuses on research, transfer of scientific and technical knowledge into practice and education in the field of nutrition, nutritional physiology and nutritional management of metabolic processes in the transitional phases of the production and reproductive cycle with a focus on nutritional prevention of health disorders in high-production animals; expanding knowledge about the use of feed additives and selected specifically active substances in pigs and poultry; diagnostics of mastitis and quality control of milk and dairy products, treatment and manipulation of animals, assessment and description of the exterior, their useful properties, methods of selection, breeding and breeding methods of individual breeds of farm and companion animals. The application and transfer of research and development into practice is carried out in the form of advisory and consulting activities and laboratory services – feed analysis for agricultural enterprises and consulting companies. The department guarantees the activities of the Small Animal Breeding Club, which covers students with their own breeding of fur animals and poultry. The department also includes a microbiological laboratory for mammary gland hygiene. Educational activities in undergraduate education are carried out within the study programs General Veterinary Medicine, Food Hygiene, Feed and Food Safety, Cynology, Human-Animal Relationship and its Use in Canistherapy and Hippotherapy, and Veterinary Nurse. Teaching is provided in English for the study programs General Veterinary Medicine and the Join study program Animal Science.