College of Agriculture

AS201 Livestock and Poultry Management 3 (2+1) Sem I

Offered to B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture Students – Semester I

LPM 205 Livestock Poultry and Management 2+1 Sem.I

Sr.No. Topic No. of

Lectures
1. Place of livestock in the national economy 1 M
2. Important exotic and Indian breeds of cattle, buffalo, 2 I
sheep, goat and swine. D
3. Housing principles for livestock 1 T
4. estrous cycle, detection of estrous 1 E
5. Artificial Insemination (AI) 1
R
6. Feeding and management of calves, heifers, pregnant 2
M
and milch animals
SYLLABUS
7. Care of pregnant animal and new born young one
8. Feeding management of sheep, goat and swine 2
9. Measures and factors affecting fertility in livestock 1 POST
10. Vaccination and prevention of important diseases of 2 MIDTERM
livestock and poultry (I provide photocopy tomorrow SYLLABUS
from book other wise it is too long)
11. Important breeds of poultry 1
12. Egg formation, abnormal eggs and factors affecting egg 2
size
13. Moulting, incubation, hatching and brooding 2
14. Housing, breeding and feeding management of poultry 2
15. Importance, advantages and limiting factors in fish farming. 1

16. . Common terms and species of fish. Scientific fish farming 1

17. Important diseases of fish along with their preventive measures. 1
18. Biotechnological interventions in animal production and 2
reproduction (this includes the Artificial Insemination,
embryo transfer technology and the cloning in livestock
e.g in sheep first time in Australia take information from
web)