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Agriculture for Secondary Schools
Characteristics of appropriate housing ...............................................................56
Housing for cattle ...............................................................................................63
Housing for poultry ............................................................................................74
Housing for goats and sheep ..............................................................................84
Housing for pig ..................................................................................................87
Housing for rabbit ..............................................................................................90
Chapter Five: Feeding of livestock .......................................................................95
Introduction ........................................................................................................95
Nutrients in livestock feeds ................................................................................95
The digestive systems and digestion in livestock ..............................................99
Types of livestock feeds ....................................................................................105
Livestock feeding systems ................................................................................118
Supplementary feeding .....................................................................................122
Good livestock feeding practise ........................................................................124
Chapter Six: Management of livestock health .....................................................127
Introduction .......................................................................................................127
The meaning of livestock health .......................................................................127
Conditions of healthy and unhealthy animal ....................................................127
Causes of poor health in livestock ....................................................................135
Approaches of managing livestock health ........................................................136
Parasites in livestock .........................................................................................138
Chapter Seven: Reproduction and breeding of livestock .....................................146
Introduction .......................................................................................................146
The concept of reproduction and breeding in livestock ....................................146
Reproductive systems of farm animals ............................................................146
Reproductive cycles in relation to breeding in livestock ..................................151
Techniques of breeding of farm animals ...........................................................154
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