[AVS 101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (54 pages long!)

• School: URI
• Department: Animal and Veterinary Science
• Course: AVS 101
• Professor: Anthony Mallilo

Document Summary

Traditionally, dogs seen as impure: rare as pets. Animal slaughter: blood completely drained, kosher food. Hunting for sport forbidden: not essential human need. Consumption of pork forbidden: viewed as unclean. In middle east animals exchanged for a bride. Goal was quality wool: 1783, merino breed from spain. 1539 desoto brought 13 pigs to the us. 1542 700 pigs: razorbacks, feral domesticated animal returned to wild state. Coronado and desoto: brought horses to us. Chicken: 335 million laying hens, 8. 6 billion broilers/fryers. Nutrition is the science of food and the nutrients it contains: Metabolic water: glucose and oxygen, carbohydrate + breathing = metabolic water. Body fluids and mucosal tissue: saliva, spinal fluid, eye. Calories (us) or joule: amount of heat to raise 1 pound of water 4 f. Gross energy: total number of calories a feed contains, measured in kilocalories (kcal) Net energy: what remains after wasted energy is removed. Contains 2 molecules of sugar (glucose and fructose)