AGRI 633 - Understanding and Managing Animal Resources

This course focuses on nutritional planes for animals in forage-based environments and their impacts on reproduction in grazing animals. The focus is evaluating the nutritional requirements of a variety of animals including wildlife, and how those requirements vary by stage and type of production, body size, activity and environmental stress. The course evaluates different techniques to quantify the nutritional status of animals as well as explore effectiveness of nutritional supplementation. The course also explores reasons for reproductive success and possible management options for optimizing reproductive performance.

This course can be applied towards:

• Integrated Resource Management (M.Agr.)

Instructors

Kraig Peel
(970) 491-6928
kraig.peel@colostate.edu

Ph.D. Meat Science, Texas A&M University; M.S. Animal Nutrition, Texas A&M University; B.S. Animal Sciences, Angelo State University

Dr. Peel is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and is the coordinator for the Integrated Resource Management master's program. He helped develop this innovative graduate program in IRM and routinely guest lectures in a variety of College of Agricultural Sciences courses.

Learn more at: http://ansci.colostate.edu/department/Faculty%20and%20Staff/Peel.html