ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (ALT B)
- PREAMBLE
This syllabus has been designed to portray animal husbandry as a trade for livelihood with emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge and entrepreneurial skills in animal husbandry.
Candidates will be expected to answer questions on all the topics set out in the column headed Syllabus. The notes therein are intended to indicate the scope of the questions which will be set, but they are not to be considered as an exhaustive list of limitations and illustrations.
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The syllabus will therefore seek to assess candidates’ knowledge and skills in:
- basic animal production practices such as feeding, housing, pest and disease control;
- efficient and effective management of animal enterprise;
- efficient processing, preservation, packaging, storage and marketing of animal products;
- basic entrepreneurial skills in animal husbandry related vocations;
- basic knowledge and skills in animal improvement and health.
- REQUIREMENTS
- Schools offering Animal Husbandry are expected to raise at least one species of farm animals from each of the following groups:
(a) monogastrics e.g. poultry, pigs, snails, camel, donkey, horse, rabbit, bee.
(b) ruminants e.g. cattle, sheep and goat.
- It is recommended that the schools should have agricultural laboratories.
- It is also recommended that candidates keep practical notebooks and specimen albums which should contain records of activities undertaken and observations made on the school farm and field trips and of specimens collected.
- It is also expected that the study would be supplemented by visits to well established livestock and poultry farms, abattoirs, feed mills, animal product-based companies and other institutions related to animal
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