Animal Husbandry Past Questions and Answers

A farmer whose objective is to produce animals of the same age will practice

Which of the following management practices would increase the carrying capacity of pasture

A distention of stomach in ruminants due to accumulation of gas as a result of consumption of lush pasture is known as

(a) State 6 activities that could be carried out in the brooding of chicks
(b) Explain each of the following management practices in poultry production
i. deworming
ii. culling
iii. debeaking
iv. delousing
(c) State four signs of ill health in poultry
(d) Mention to organs in the circulatory system of farm animals

(a) Complete the table below on forage crops

Botanical name	Common name	Types of forage
Pennisetum purpureum	(i)	Grass
Calopogonium mucunoides	(ii)	(iii)
(iv)	stylo	(v)
Panicum maxinium	(vi)	(vii)
Mucuna utilis	(viii)	Legume

(b)i. Define the term pasture
ii. State four ways in which grass-legume mixture is important in livestock production
(c) State six characteristics of rangelands