The major of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine trains high-level skilled talents who have the theories and technologies related to animal feed preparation, breeding technology, feeding management, disease diagnosis and control, and can engage in farm production technology and management, animal diagnosis and treatment, feed and veterinary drug marketing. Through animal husbandry or animal husbandry, human beings obtain food such as meat, milk, eggs and fat, and raw materials for light industry such as skin, hair, feathers and bones, and support planting with animal husbandry and manure. Veterinarians refer to industries and personnel engaged in the prevention and treatment of animal diseases. The main task is to study and implement the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, quarantine and health inspection of livestock and poultry diseases.

main course

Animal pathogen detection technology, animal reproduction, farm environment control and sewage treatment technology, veterinary clinical diagnosis and treatment technology, animal nutrition and feed, pig breeding and pig disease prevention, poultry breeding and bird disease prevention, cattle and sheep production and cattle and sheep disease prevention, etc.

Employment direction

Graduates can work in county and township veterinary administrative departments, animal quarantine stations, animal slaughtering enterprises, animal disease control centers, animal/pet hospitals, large-scale breeding enterprises, feed enterprises and veterinary drug enterprises in animal disease prevention and control, animal quarantine officers, veterinary laboratory technicians, licensed assistant veterinarians, veterinary technicians, feed technicians, animal feeding management, pasture management, etc.

Career prospects

Animal husbandry [1] is benefit agriculture. There are more than 60,000 animal husbandry and veterinary institutions in provinces, prefectures, counties and townships in China, but the number of animal husbandry and veterinary technicians is insufficient and their quality is low. Among the technicians, only 17.8% have college education. In Wenzhou City alone, about 80% of township animal husbandry and veterinary doctors need to create more than 200 posts in 3-5 years. There are more than 800 enterprises in raw materials, veterinary drugs and biological products in Zhejiang Province, which can provide 3,200 jobs according to the annual demand of 4 people. There are about 600 feed, vitamins, additives and other enterprises in Zhejiang Province, which can provide 1.200 jobs according to the average annual demand of two higher vocational students, and a large number of professionals are needed in the sales process. A large number of inspection and quarantine personnel are urgently needed for livestock and poultry trading and slaughter in urban and rural areas. There is a serious shortage of technicians in breeding companies and farms, and a large number of highly skilled animal husbandry and veterinary talents are urgently needed. The increase of pet breeding in cities and towns provides more and wider employment opportunities for higher vocational graduates.