Information Package / Course Catalogue
Animal Product Quality and Nutrition strategies
Course Code: ZT412
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to train the students to examine the academic studies on animal nutrition that affects the quality of animal products, to teach the applications to increase the quality of milk, meat, eggs, fleece, and to provide the necessary information on the production of enriched animal products in practice.

Course Content

In this course, students learn the relationship between feed-milk quality, feed-red/poultry meat quality, feed-white meat quality, feed-egg quality, feed-fleece quality, feed with GMO feed and animal product quality.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Mürsel ÖZDOĞAN
Learning Outcomes
1.Gaining basic knowledge and practices of animal nutrition that affect milk quality,
2..Gaining basic knowledge and practices of animal nutrition affecting meat quality,
3.Gaining basic knowledge and practices of animal nutrition that affects egg quality,
4.Gaining basic knowledge and practices of animal feeding that affects fleece quality,
5.It is the acquisition of basic knowledge and practices of feeding with GMO feeds that affect milk, meat, egg and fleece quality.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Study Paper
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Overview to milk production and nutritional characteristics of milk
Week 2 - Theoretical
Effect of forages on milk quality
Week 3 - Theoretical
The effect of concentrated feeds on milk quality
Week 4 - Theoretical
Effects of feed additives on milk quantity and composition
Week 5 - Theoretical
Effect of organic animal nutrition on milk composition
Week 6 - Theoretical
Overview to red/poultry meat production and nutritional characteristics of meat
Week 7 - Theoretical
Effect of animal nutrition on red meat quality
Week 8 - Theoretical
Effect of animal nutrition on poultry meat quality
Week 9 - Theoretical
Effect of nutrition on external quality traits of eggs
Week 10 - Theoretical
Effect of feed on internal quality traits of egg
Week 11 - Theoretical
Enriching some nutrients of eggs with feeds
Week 12 - Theoretical
Overview to fleece production and fleece quality
Week 13 - Theoretical
Effect of feed and feed additives on fleece quality
Week 14 - Theoretical
Effect of GMO feeds on milk composition, meat quality and egg quality
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Rate1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Midterm Examination1516
Final Examination1617
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)69
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
OÇ-1
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3
OÇ-2
3
3
OÇ-3
3
3
OÇ-4
2
2
OÇ-5
3
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026