CANDIDATES’ STRENGTHS
The candidates were able to:
- name the structures used for housing livestock;
- state the ways of improving pasture;
- name the organs of the digestive system of a rabbit;
- mention parasites of farm animals;
- enumerate ways in which the keeping of ruminants is important to the economy of a country;
- list management practices undertaken in cattle production;
- state the objectives of animal improvement;
- mention the signs that indicate that a pregnant animal is approaching parturition; - name disease causing organisms in livestock production;
- explain the terms ration, balanced diet, maintenance ration, production ration and malnutrition;
- give the uses of animal products such as honey, wool, horn, milk and egg;
- enumerate the advantages of artificial insemination;
- discuss methods of animal improvement.