Beef Cattle - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Beef Cattle Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Develop your abilities to analyse and make decisions about the management requirements of beef cattle. This comprehensive distance learning course covers cattle breeds and breeding, diseases, feeding and nutrition.

You will also develop your skills in management (including feed lot and stud herd management), economics and marketing.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure:

1 Introduction to Beef Production and Beef Cattle Breeds

• The role of beef cattle in agriculture
• Scientific classification
• Examples of breeds worldwide
• British Beef breeds - Angus, Hereford, South Devon, Sussex, Red Poll
• U.S. Developed Beef breeds - Santa Gertrudis, American Brahman, Amerifax, Beefmaster
• European Beef breeds - Salers, Charolais, Simmental, Gelbvieh
• Australian Beef breeds - Braford, Beefmaster, Droughtmaster, Murray Grey, Australian Lowline
• South African Beef Breeds - Salorn, Tswana, Tuli, Africkander,
• Breed selection considerations - horned vs poll, colour, gestation length, birth weight, mothering ability, post weaning growth, meat quality etc

2 Beef Cattle Production Systems

• Various systems of production - extensive, intensive, semi-intensive
• Choosing a suitable system - considerations include size, climate, soils, transport, markets etc
• Cattle handling facilities
• Materials used in cattle handling
• Cattle identification - branding, ear marking, tattooing, ear tags
• De-horning - chemical and mechanical methods
• Castration, dips and dipping, and injecting cattle

3 Beef Cattle Breeding

• Heritability, performance testing, progeny testing, selection
• Pure versus cross breeding - advantages and disadvantages
• Calving percentage
• Management factors to improve calving percentage
• Weaning calves
• Factors affecting calf weaning
• The anatomy of the male reproductive system
• The physiology of the male reproductive system
• Fertility problems in the male
• The anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
• Fertility problems
• Pregnancy and partition
• The structure of the mammary glands
• Secretion of milk
• Growth and development
• Post natal growth
• Compensatory growth

4 Diseases in Beef Cattle (Viral and Bacterial)

• Determining health status of the animal
• Signs of a healthy animal
• Causes of ill-health
• Injury, poor nutrition, poisoning, parasites, hereditary conditions etc
• Preventing ill-health
• Correct feed and nutrition, insect control, parasite control, vaccinations, control stress etc

5 Parasitic and Other Diseases in Beef Cattle

• Some parasitic diseases
• Other ailments of cattle - actinobacillosis, anaplasmosis, arthritis, beef measles
• poisoning, pink eye, milk fever, bloat etc

6 Nutrition for Beef Cattle

• Feed type - roughages and concentrates
• Carbohydrates, protein, fats
• Grass or grain feeding
• Rations for beef cattle - maintenance or production rations
• Maintenance rations
• Procedure for calculating a ration
• Supplementary feeding of protein
• Lot Feeding
• Minerals
• Common macromineral deficiencies
• Common trace mineral deficiencies
• Diagnosis of trace mineral deficiencies
• Vitamins
• Water for farm animals
• Protein

7 Commercial Herd Management

• The breeding herd
• Production systems
• Cow-calf herd
• Beef production systems using dairy stock

8 Feed Lot Management

• Lot feeding - types of feedlot
• Managing cattle in a feedlot
• Feedlot Records
• Article on pen feeding in South Africa

9 Stud Herd Management

• Time of calving
• Feeding
• Fertility
• Indicators of fertility in bulls
• Indicators of fertility in cows

10 Management, Economics and Marketing

• Profitability
• Factors affecting gross output
• Factors affecting variable costs

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Agriculturalists, Farmers, Animal Breeders

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

ADL has helped thousands of people develop their farming and agricultural knowledge and skills. This course is perfect if you're aspiring to become a farmer or if you'd like to further develop your career in farming.

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