Department of Animal Nutrition and Husbandry

Teaching activities

Teaching is carried out in 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 Joint Study Program Animal Science. The subjects are taught in the form of lectures, practical exercises at the department, or in agricultural and manufacturing enterprises. In terms of content, these subjects are offered sequentially, covering knowledge, cultivation, and biology of plants, feed production, canning, technological modification to increase the nutritional and dietary value, their inclusion in the feeding process, and the assessment of their nutritional and dietary value in relation to production health and the physiology of digestion and production. In the field of animal breeding, students are provided with theoretical and practical knowledge about breeding technologies and the study of morphological and useful properties of farm, domestic small animals and companion animals.

Study programs taught in the Slovak language

Food hygiene:

• Feed plants and toxic plants
• Nutrition and feeding of animals
• Zootechnics and technology of animal husbandry
• Feed quality control and production health of animals

General veterinary medicine:

• Feed plants and toxic plants
• Nutrition and feeding of animals
• Feed control and production health of animals
• Animal husbandry and technology of animal production

Feed and food safety:

• Cultivation and preservation of fodders and feeds
• Processing technology and safety systems in feed production
• Nutritional and dietetic evaluation of feeds
• Animal husbandry

Cynology:

• Nutrition and dietetics of dogs
• Industrial feeds and diets for dogs
• General animal husbandry and dog breeds

The human-animal relationship and its use in canistherapy and hippotherapy:

• Nutrition
• General animal husbandry and breeds of dogs and horses

Veterinary nurse:

• Animal nutrition, dietetics and feeding
• Breeds and breeding of companion animals

Study programs taught in English

General veterinary medicine:

• Feed plant biology and toxic plants
• Animal husbandry and technology of animal production
• Nutrition and feeding of animals
• Feed quality control and production health of animals

Joint study program Animal Science:

• Animal Husbandry
• Animal Nutrition

Projects in the last 5 years:

• KEGA 011UVLF-4/2024: Improving the quality of practical teaching with the support of animal breeding and higher education for students from the subject of animal husbandry. Implementation period: 2024 – 2026
• KEGA 006UVLF-4/2021: Study texts and virtual laboratory for e-learning in the field of technologies and safety systems in feed production. Implementation period: 2022 – 2024
• KEGA 009UVLF-4/2021: Innovation and implementation of new knowledge of scientific research and husbandry practice to improve the quality of teaching foreign students in the subject of zootechnics. Implementation period: 2021 – 2023
• KEGA 006UVLF-4/2020: Implementation of new scientific knowledge in teaching and improvement of the practical education of students in livestock breeding technologies of the Zootechnics subject. Implementation period: 2020 – 2022
• KEGA 011UVLF-4/2020: Analysis of the impact of nutrition on production, the level of metabolic and ecological load in dairy farming - application of knowledge for diagnosis and education. Implementation period: 2020 – 2022