Livestock and Poultry Management

Vocabulary flashcards based on the Livestock and Poultry Management course outline covering theoretical modules, objectives, and practical operations.

Livestock and Poultry Management Objectives

Providing basic knowledge about scientific livestock and poultry rearing practices and enabling entrepreneurship development through Livestock/poultry and Agriculture Integrated Farming System.

Reproduction and Housing Management

A theory module covering reproduction in farm animals and poultry, housing principles, and space requirements for different species of livestock and poultry.

Livestock Management Practices

A module focused on the management of calves, growing heifers, milch animals, sheep, goat, and swine.

Poultry Management

A theory module covering incubation, hatching, brooding, and the management of growers and layers.

Breeds and Improvement

A subject area dealing with important Indian and exotic breeds of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, swine, and poultry, as well as improvement of farm animals and poultry.

Digestion and Feeding

Theoretical instruction on digestion, feedstuff classification, proximate principles of feed, nutrients and their functions, feed ingredients, feed supplements, feed additives, and feeding of livestock and poultry.

Diseases and Health Management

A module covering the introduction, prevention (including vaccination schedules), and control of important diseases in livestock and poultry.

IDF and IPF

IDF (Integrated Dairy Farm) and IPF (Integrated Poultry Farm) visited during practical sessions to study breeds of livestock and poultry, daily routine farm operations, and farm records.

Practical Housing and Restraining

Practical activities involving handling and restraining of livestock, external body parts, identification methods, and planning and layout of housing for different types of livestock.

Practical Feed Formulation

Practical procedures focusing on the computation of rations for livestock and the formulation of concentrate mixtures.

Clean Milk Production

A practical topic focusing on clean milk production and milking methods.

Poultry Practical Management

Practical tasks including hatchery operations, incubation and hatching equipment, management of chicks, growers, and layers, debeaking, dusting, and vaccination.

Judging and Culling

Practical procedures for judging cattle, buffalo, and poultry, and culling of livestock and poultry.