Abstract: Animal production is an application-oriented discipline with high practicality. The task of animal production teaching is to make undergraduates obtain new technologies and methods in modern livestock and poultry breeding, adapt to the requirement of the industry, and have the basic skills of serving enterprises. However, the existing teaching model in agricultural universities and colleges is hard to realize the above goals, and it is normal that the undergraduates′ learning enthusiasm can not be fully motivated in the classroom teaching. To train high-quality talents in animal husbandry who meet the social needs, the current curriculums are imperative to be reformed and innovated. Taking Cattle Breeding as an example, this paper elaborates the ideas and methods of the teaching reform for animal production curriculums from the aspects of optimizing classroom teaching contents, innovating teaching model, strengthening practical teaching, and improving assessment methods.

Key words: Cattle Breeding, animal production, teaching reform