CANDIDATES’ STRENGTHS
The candidates were able to:
- explain lactation and rumination as used in Animal husbandry;
- give the reasons for providing a new-born calf with colostrum;
- state the characteristics of West African goats;
- state the disadvantages of natural incubation;
- state the factors which could be responsible for high incidence of mortality in a brooder house;
- give the reasons for candling eggs;
- define the term Animal husbandry;
- state ways in which farm animals are important to humans ;
- explain the terms ovulation and oestrus as used animal production;
- list the signs that indicate that a ewe is approaching parturition;
- list the classes of animal feed;
- state the functions of protein in animal diets;
- name the sources of protein in animal feed;
- explain the term rangeland;
- state the characteristics of a rangeland;
- mention the ways in which rangeland is important in animal production
- list the methods of rangeland improvement;
- name pasture grasses and pasture legumes.