Feeding Strategies - Pigs
- Faculty
Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
Version 2 of 19.08.2026.
- Module identifier
44B0896
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 40 Seminar Presence - 20 Practice Presence - 10 Excursion Presence - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 25 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 20 Presentation preparation - 20 Study of literature - 15 Exam preparation -
- Graded examination
- oral exam and Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
- oral exam
- Remark on the assessment methods
The standard form of examination is the referat (50 %) + oral examination (50 %) (alternative form of examination may be chosen by the examiner and then announced at the beginning of the course)
- Literature
Rechenmeister für die Schweinefütterung 2024
DLG-Merkblatt 463: Fütterung und Tierwohl beim Schwein (https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/Merkblaetter/dlg-merkblatt_463.pdf)
Maher, S., Sweeney, T., & O’Doherty, J. V. (2025). Optimising nutrition for sustainable pig production: strategies to quantify and mitigate environmental impact. Animals, 15(10), 1403.
Lestingi, A. (2024). Alternative and sustainable protein sources in pig diet: A review. Animals, 14(2), 310.Aktuelle Beiträge aus Fachzeitschriften, weitere Literatur wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben.
- Applicability in study programs
- Agriculture
- Agriculture B.Sc. (01.09.2025)
- Person responsible for the module
- Westendarp, Heiner
- Teachers
- Westendarp, Heiner