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A Student Specializing in Animal Husbandry Needs Veterinary Science

Kansas State College

Abstract

The chief objective of a curriculum that offers students an opportunity to specialize in Animal Husbandry will determine whether the Veterinary sciences should be included in such a curriculum. If the chief objective of such a curriculum is to give students an opportunity to secure a well-rounded education and at the same time enable them to develop the broadest and fullest possible understanding in the field of Animal Husbandry, then the inclusion of properly adapted instructions in the fundamentals of several of the Veterinary sciences, particularly anatomy, physiology, histology, embryology, bacteriology and immunology is absolutely necessary.

Practically all curricula offering students an opportunity to specialize in Animal Husbandry include courses in stock judging, feeding, breeding, management and meats. Stock judging, in its last analysis, is an applied course in anatomy and physiology, yet in most instances, students taking their first course in stock judging have had no training in these Veterinary sciences and know practically nothing of the structure or function of the many parts that go to make up the animal as a whole and which determine the usefulness of an animal for the purpose it was intended to serve.

Without a knowledge of the capacities, gross and microscopic structures and functions of the organs involved in the utilization of feed, students run into serious difficulties in making the many adjustments needed in meeting practical every day feeding problems.