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ANP302: Ruminant Animal Production
Ruminant Animal Production is a third year two unit course for the degree programme in Animal Science, Animal Production or Animal Production and Health. The course can also be offered by any other student of agriculture who may be interested in ruminant animal production.
What Will You Learn?
This course is concerned with the husbandry and management of ruminant animals. This entails knowing the different local and some of the exotic breeds of cattle, sheep and goats in the tropics and their management principles. This course, will therefore expose you to the knowledge and understanding with skill acquisition in the rearing of cattle, sheep and goats which are the common ruminants in Nigeria.
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On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
• Explain the management principles involved in the rearing of ruminant animals. The age at puberty, sexing ratio, care of the young ruminants etc.
• Identify some of the local and exotic breed of ruminant animals
• Compare the anatomical structure of the gastro-intestinal tract of ruminant animals
• Differentiate the housing types for the different classes of ruminant animals.
Ruminant Animal Production offers the knowledge on the management of breeding animals i.e. those selected for mating and production of offspring for the farm. This is very important as it forms the foundation of many successful production amongst other things. The managemnt of the weaners or the weaned animals to maturity and other production purposes in terms of their feeds and feeding, health care and housing based on the system of production. This course also prepares you for the advanced level concepts in courses such as Beef Production, Dairy Cattle Production and Sheep and Goat Production
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Lessons Of Course
Breeds of Sheep and Goat
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