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