Department of Animal husbandry – Non-ruminants and other animals

• Beekeeping
  Head of sub-department prof. Ivanka Zhelyazkova, DSc
  tel. +359 42 699 367, e-mail  izhel@uni-sz.bg
• Horse breeding
  Head of sub-department prof. Georgi Barzev, Phd
  tel. +359 42 699 373, e-mail barzev@uni-sz.bg
• Pig farming
  Head of sub-department prof. Valentin Katsarov, PhD
  tel.  +359 42 699 388,e-mail vkatsarov@uni-sz.bg
• Poultry Farming
  Head of sub-department prof. Atanas Genchev, DSc
  tel. +359 42 699 383, e-mail agenchev@abv.bg
• Rabbit and game animals farming
  Head of sub-department assoc. prof. Evgeniy Raichev, PhD
  tel. +359 886 824 714, e-mail eraichev@uni-sz.bg
• Sericulture
  Head of sub-department
  tel. +359 42 699 , e-mail

• Anatomy, biology, physiology and morphological characteristics of the honey bee
• Technologies for growing, breeding and productivity of bee colony
• Selection, breeding, growing and storage of bee queens
• Economy, organization and management in beekeeping
• Protecting bees from enemies
• Applying stimulating substances and pollen substitutes when feeding the bee colony
• Bees and their products, as indicators for the pollution of the environment

• Beekeeping
• Agrotourism
• Production of safe and quality products from beekeeping
• Ecology of beneficial insects in the agriculture
• Ecotourism

Prof. Ivanka Zheleva Zhelyazkova, DSc

tel. +359 42 699 367, e-mail  izhel@uni-sz.bg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific interests

Biology of the honey bee and technologies for raising bee colonies

Use of stimulating substances and pollen substitutes when feeding the bee colony and their impact on biological characteristics of honey bees

Use of substitutes for carbohydrate food for bees and their impact on the qualities of the produced honey

Use of essential oils in beekeeping

Opportunities for using honey bees and bee products as indicators for pollution of the environment

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• Horse breeding

Asst. prof. Vlaeva

• Fattening and slaughter qualities of pigs
• Management of pig farms
• Economic analysis in pig farming
• Marketing and markets for pig products
• Alternative markets and use of marketing cooperatives to increase the market prices of pork meat and meat products
• Use of market information to decrease the price risk in pig farming
• Technologies for raising pigs for breeding and meat
• Optimizing the microclimate factors and technological parameters
• Ecologization of the production processes
• Feeding of pigs
• Opportunities for improvement of the diet and quality of pork meat

• Pig farming
• Breeding and growing pigs

• Anatomy, physiology and biology of farm bird species
• Poultry breeding and genetics
• Incubation and biological control
• Poultry feeding
• Farm birds breeding and rearing technologies  
• Poultry production quality

• Poultry farming
• Waterfowl farming
• Turkey farming
• Incubation of farm birds
• Industrial egg and poultry meat production

• Poultry meat production technologies
• Poultry farming practice
• Foie gras production technologies
• Technology for the production of eggs and egg products
• Incubation
• Poultry products qualification

• Rabbit farming
• Feeding
• Technologies
• Biology of the breeding of rabbit and game animals
• Game animals farming
• Biology and ecology of game animals
• Biology and ecology of the feathered game animals, raised in voliere – feeding, egg laying, incubation – hatching, survival of offsprings

• Rabbit and game animals farming
• Ecology and biology of game animals
• Game animals farming
• Rabbit farming
• Laboratory animals
• Cynology
• Feeding of laboratory and luxurious animals
• Management in the rabbit and game animals farming
• Quality and standards of products in rabbit and game animals farming
• Laboratory and luxurious animals
• Production of safe and quality products from rabbit and game animals
• Hunting tourism

• Breeding and selection of Bombyx mori, including the creation of new lines, breeds and hybrids. Usage of ultraviolet fluorescence in the selection process.
• Stimulating the productivity of the B. mori through influence with physics factors (gamma, laser and infrared rays)
• Feeding of the B. mori, using artificial food and non-traditional sources (M. nigra).
• Effect of the ecologic conditions during the separate states of their growing.

• Sericulture
• Ecology of the insects beneficial to agriculture
• Technologies in sericulture
• Management in sericulture
• Quality and standards of products in sericulture
• Selection of Bombyx mori

Asst. prof. Guncheva