General
Schedule for Fall, 2009
Faculty on Duty: August 24
Registration: August 25 – 26
First Class Day: August 27
Holidays: Sept. 7, Oct. 12 – 13
Nov. 25 – 27
Last Class Day: December 9
Final Exams: December 11 – 16
Commencement: December 18 – 19
2009
Fall farrowings:
Sept 1-2; Oct 1-2; Dec 10-11
Class
schedule
(Schedule may change throughout the course of
the semester)
|
Wk |
Day |
Date |
Class and lab topic |
Chapters |
Comments |
|
1 |
Fri |
28-Aug |
Intro to class; Current status of industry |
|
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|
2 |
Mon |
31-Aug |
Biosecurity & continued introduction |
NPB |
DVD |
|
Tue |
1-Sep |
ACUC Training & Tour farm; Litter Processing |
|
ND |
|
|
Wed |
2-Sep |
Pig domestication and early history |
1, 2 |
|
|
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Fri |
4-Sep |
USA pig industry benchmarks |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
3 |
Mon |
7-Sep |
Holiday; Labor Day |
|
|
|
Tue |
8-Sep |
NPB & PQA+
Certification, Sherrie Niekamp, NPB |
|
Q #1 Guest, ML |
|
|
Wed |
9-Sep |
Pig Anatomy & Physiology; Society Issues |
3, 4 |
|
|
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Fri |
11-Sep |
Society Issues |
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|
4 |
Mon |
14-Sep |
Breeding & Gestation Mgt & Sow Housing Calculator |
14, NPB |
DVD |
|
Tue |
15-Sep |
Farrowing Management; Blood collection |
NPB |
DVD, ND |
|
|
Wed |
16-Sep |
Show pig panel discussion; Denny Belew, http://www.belewfarms.com) Stanley Young, Past President of TXPPA Todd Beyers (http://www.beyersfarms.com/contact.html) |
7 |
Q #2 |
|
|
Fri |
18-Sep |
Pig Biology – Blood
sampling; anatomy |
4 |
|
|
|
5 |
Mon |
21-Sep |
Farrowing Management |
18, NPB |
DVD |
|
Tue |
22-Sep |
Field trip to show pig producer farm; Kyle Stephens from Canyon
or Denny Bellew in Tahoka (12:30-5 pm) |
|
Travel |
|
|
Wed |
23-Sep |
Pig Biology – Reproduction |
5, 17 |
Q #3 |
|
|
Fri |
25-Sep |
Breeding & Gestation Management |
14, NPB |
DVD |
|
|
6 |
Mon |
28-Sep |
Records/PPSY |
|
|
|
Tue |
29-Sep |
Breeding sows & boar collection |
|
ND |
|
|
Wed |
30-Sep |
Nursery & Grow-finish management |
15, 19 |
Q #4 |
|
|
Fri |
2-Oct |
Nursery & Grow-finish management |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
7 |
Mon |
5-Oct |
Farrow litters; no in-class meeting |
|
|
|
Tue |
6-Oct |
Farrow litters; no in-class meeting |
|
|
|
|
Wed |
7-Oct |
Farrow litters; no in-class meeting |
|
|
|
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Fri |
9-Oct |
Farrow litters; no in-class meeting |
|
|
|
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8 |
Mon |
12-Oct |
Fall Break -- no class |
|
|
|
Tue |
13-Oct |
Fall Break -- no class |
|
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|
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Wed |
14-Oct |
Joe Wolfe Cargill Pork |
6 |
|
|
|
Fri |
16-Oct |
GEnetics; Hogzilla; feral pigs |
|
|
|
|
9 |
Mon |
19-Oct |
Growth, Development and Survival |
8 |
|
|
Tue |
20-Oct |
Seaboard Foods presentation |
|
ML |
|
|
Wed |
21-Oct |
Creating a comfortable microenvironment |
13 |
|
|
|
Fri |
23-Oct |
Ventilation & Management |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
10 |
Mon |
26-Oct |
Mid-term oral exam |
|
|
|
Tue |
27-Oct |
Ventilation controls |
|
ND |
|
|
Wed |
28-Oct |
Waste management |
16 |
Q #6 |
|
|
Fri |
30-Oct |
Pig Husbandry & Stockmanship Effective handling of pigs |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
11 |
Mon |
2-Nov |
Managing the breeding herd Farrowing Reports due |
17 |
Q #7 |
|
Tue |
3-Nov |
Record keeping systems & Farrowing Reports Discussion |
ML |
ML |
|
|
Wed |
4-Nov |
Managing sows and piglets |
18 |
|
|
|
Fri |
6-Nov |
Swine Caretaker |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
12 |
Mon |
9-Nov |
Managing sows and piglets |
|
Q #8 |
|
Tue |
10-Nov |
Swine nutrition laboratory & lecture |
|
ND |
|
|
Wed |
11-Nov |
Management of growing pigs |
19 |
|
|
|
Fri |
13-Nov |
Swine disease recognition & treatment |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
13 |
Mon |
16-Nov |
Swine Diseases Dr. T Brooks |
20 |
Q #9 |
|
Tue |
17-Nov |
Assessing pig health – walking the pens, sow body condition
scores, lameness evaluation & Euthanasia |
|
ND |
|
|
Wed |
18-Nov |
Swine Diseases Dr. T. Brooks |
|
|
|
|
Fri |
20-Nov |
YouTube editing time |
No class |
|
|
|
14 |
Mon |
23-Nov |
YouTube editing time |
No class |
|
|
Tue |
24-Nov |
Pork Production safety system |
NPB |
DVD |
|
|
Wed |
25-Nov |
Thanksgiving |
|
|
|
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Fri |
27-Nov |
Thanksgiving |
|
|
|
|
15 |
Mon |
30-Nov |
YouTube Presentations |
|
Q#10 |
|
Tue |
1-Dec |
Pig Necropsy @ Meat Lab |
|
ML |
|
|
Wed |
2-Dec |
YouTube Presentations |
|
|
|
|
Fri |
4-Dec |
YouTube Presentations |
|
|
|
|
16 |
Mon |
7-Dec |
Dr. Chance Brooks; Pork Quality |
9 |
|
|
Tue |
8-Dec |
Pork Sensory lab |
|
ML |
|
|
Wed |
9-Dec |
Last class -- review |
|
|
|
|
Wed |
14-Dec |
7:30-10:00 am Optional Final Exam |
|
AFS 223 |