An-Najah Staff

Course title and number

Animal Farm Constructions (95435)

Instructor(s) name(s)

Ahmad Ismail Zaazaa

Contact information

Room: 1160, Tulkarm campus

Tel: 2675893

Email: ahmadzaza@najah.edu

Semester/ academic year

First semester , 2011-2012

Compulsory / Elective

Elective course.

Prerequisites

92211-92212

Course Contents

(description)

This course covers the following subjects: housing of animals, constructions of animal buildings, drainage systems, dairy cattle buildings, milking parlous, calves’ buildings, housing of beef cattle, instruments and equipments, sheep and goats building, poultry housing and poultry equipments.

Course Objectives

 The aim of course is to provide the students the buildings and the constructions of the farm animals and poultry, also to looks at instruments and equipments.

Intended learning

Outcomes and

Competences

At the end of this course students should:

1. Understand the relationship between the animal building and environment.
2. Know the types of dairy and beef cattle, sheep and goats buildings.
3. Identify the roles of the construction of the farm animals.
4. Recognize the drainage system of the farm animals.
5. Know the kinds of milking parlous and how to different between them.
6. Describe the instruments and equipment which uses at the different farms of animals.
7. Recognize the different kinds of poultry building and the equipments which uses at the poultry houses.

Textbook and  References

(Online Resources)

1. Abd-Elone’z A., (1992), Mousel University, Iraq (In Arabic)
2. John B.O., (1981) Aberdeen University, Scotland, U.K.

Assignment Criteria

Activity

Percent (%)

First Exam

25%

Second Exam

25%

Final Exam

50%

Week

Subjects

1

The housing of Animals

2,3

Constructions of Animal buildings

4

Drainage systems

5

Dairy cattle buildings

6

Milking parlous

1^st Exam

 7

Calves building

 8

Housing of the beef cattle

 9

Instruments and equipments of dairy and beef cattle buildings

 10,11

Sheep and goats buildings

 12

Instrument and equipments (sheep and goats building)

2^nd Exam

 13,14

Poultry housing(Layer and broilers)

 15

Poultry equipments

 16

Review

Final Exam