Ruminant Nutrition 2010

with Paul Cusack

The Ruminant Nutrition course is highly valuable to any veterinarian working in a farming environment. It is focused on the role and utilisation of the best nutritional practices to maximise the production and health of the animals in your care. The course is also designed to assist veterinarians studying for potential membership candidacy of the ACVS Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in animal nutrition (ruminant). The emphasis will be on practical learning and will cover all areas of interest in ruminant nutrition.

Key benefits

• understand the basic principles of feeding ruminants for production of meat, milk and fibre
• have knowledge of the merits of a range of feedstuffs and pasture
• be able to diagnose and correct nutritional problems with various classes of cattle and sheep
• be able to assess the standard of nutritional management of a given enterprise
• be able to assess rations and have a basic understanding of ration formulation

Tutor

Dr Paul Cusack
BSc BVSc(Hons) MVSt. MACVSc PhD

Paul is a consultant cattle veterinarian, ruminant nutritionist, and beef producer with post-graduate training in the intensive and extensive ruminant industries. His post-graduate training covers the disciplines of nutrition, health programs, reproduction, epidemiology, production management and meat science; he completed his PhD on the interaction between nutrition and health in feedlot cattle in 2007. Over the last 15 years Paul has held various positions within the livestock and veterinary industry. Paul has lectured at Queensland, Sydney and most recently at Charles Sturt University from 2007 onwards and has served as Head Examiner in Beef Cattle Medicine and Production for the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists 2004-2006. He is currently the director of Australian Livestock Production Services which consults on intensive and extensive cattle and lamb enterprises throughout the eastern states of Australia, as well as being the owner and principal of Cowra Veterinary Centre, and the owner/manager of cattle trading enterprise.

Enquiries

Please contact the course coordinator.