Livestock environmental hygiene is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive course, covering a wide range. It must be based on physics, chemistry, meteorology, climatology, microbiology, physiology, ecology, behavior and pathology. At the same time, it is closely related to breeding, breeding, pasture management, environment, animal husbandry mechanization, architectural engineering, clinical veterinary medicine, livestock theory and many other disciplines.

Its task is to study the influence of natural and man-made environmental factors and their changes on the health and production performance of livestock, and put forward the theoretical basis and method principles of the requirements and measures for utilizing, protecting and improving environmental sanitation, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting and improving the health of livestock, preventing diseases, and improving productivity and economic benefits.

Through the study of this course, students can master the concept of environment. Let students know the influence of environmental factors on improving livestock productivity and preventing diseases. Make students realize the important role of environmental management in livestock feeding management, and understand and master the measures and basic skills of pasture setting, environmental control and environmental monitoring.

Livestock environmental hygiene is based on biochemistry, animal physiology, animal behavior, meteorology, soil science, water quality hygiene, building materials science and so on. Environmental hygiene of livestock and poultry is to study the relationship between the external natural environment and artificial breeding environment and the health and production of livestock and poultry.