Animal Husbandry ALT B Waec Syllabus

Below is this 2024 Waec Syllabus for Animal Husbandry ALT B. Note that this syllabus is for both internal and external candidates.

Aims and Objectives

  • basic animal production practices such as feeding, housing, pest and disease control
  • efficient and effective management of the animal enterprise
  • efficient processing, preservation, packaging, storage and marketing of animal products
  • basic entrepreneurial skills in animal husbandry-related vocations
  • basic knowledge and skills in animal improvement and health

Scheme of Examination

For candidates in Nigeria, only

There will be three papers, Papers 1, 2 and 3, all of which must be taken. Papers 1 and 2 will be a composite paper to be taken at one sitting.

PAPER 1:

Will consist of forty multiple choice questions, all of which should be answered within 40 minutes for 40 marks.

PAPER 2:

Will consist of six essay questions drawn from the entire syllabus. Each question carries 20 marks. Candidates will be required to answer four questions within 2 hours for a total of 80 marks.

PAPER 3:

This will be a practical paper for school candidates and a test of practical work paper for private candidates. Each version will consist of four questions, all of which should be answered within 1½ hours for 60 marks.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Schools offering Animal Husbandry are expected to raise at least one species of farm animal from each of the following groups:
    • monogastric e.g. poultry, pigs, snails, camel, donkey, horse, rabbit, bee.
    • ruminants e.g. cattle, sheep and goats.
  • It is recommended that the schools should have agricultural laboratories.
  • It is also recommended that candidates keep practical notebooks and specimen albums, which should contain records of activities undertaken and observations made on the school farm and field trips and of specimens collected.
  • It is also expected that the study will be supplemented by visits to well-established livestock and poultry farms, abattoirs, feed mills, animal product-based companies and other institutions related to animal

Detailed Animal Husbandry ALT B Syllabus

LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION

  1. Importance of farm animals
  2. Classification of farm animals
    • Classification of farm animals.
    • Identification of ruminants and
      non-ruminants.
  3. Internal organs and their functions in farm animals
  4. Body systems and their functions in farm animals
  5. Reproduction in farm animals
    • Definition of terms used in livestock reproduction
    • Reproduction in livestock(mammals)
    • Reproduction in poultry
    • Reproductive hormones and
      their functions
    • Management of pregnant
      farm animals.
    • Livestock management systems
    • Management practices of livestock.

ANIMAL NUTRITION

  1. Meaning and classes of animal feeds
  2. Animal feeds and feeding
    • Livestock rations
  3. Formulation of livestock rations
  4. Processing and marketing of animal products
    • Processing techniques for different farm animal products.
    • Marketing of animal products

PASTURE AND RANGE MANAGEMENT

  1. Pasture management
    • Meaning and importance of
      pasture and forage crops
    • Types of pasture and forage
      crops
    • Terminologies in pasture
      management
  2. Rangeland improvement
    • Meaning and characteristics of
      rangelands
    • Methods of rangeland
      improvement
    • Importance of rangeland

ANIMAL IMPROVEMENT

  1. Animal improvement
    • Meaning of animal improvement
    • Aims/importance of farm animal
      improvement
  2. Methods of farm animal improvement
    • Methods used in farm animal
      improvement
    • Merits and demerits of methods
      used in farm animal improvement
  3. Artificial insemination
    • Meaning of artificial insemination.
    • Methods of artificial
      insemination
    • Advantages of artificial
      insemination

ANIMAL HEALTH

  1. Farm animal diseases and pathogens
    • Concept of farm animal disease
    • General symptoms of diseases
      in farm animals
    • Diseases of farm animals,
      prevention and control
    • Factors predisposing farm
      animals to diseases
  2. Livestock parasites and pests
    • Livestock parasites
    • Livestock pests

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (PRACTICALS)

  1. Products and by-products of farm animals
  2. Identification of farm animals
  3. Internal organs and their functions in farm animals
  4. Tools and equipment used in management of farm animals
  5. Feeds and feedstuffs
  6. Pasture and forage crops
  7. Artificial insemination
  8. Pests and parasites of farm animals
    • Pests of farm animals
    • Parasites of farm animals

LIST OF FACILITIES AND MAJOR EQUIPMENT

  1. FARM BUILDING/STRUCTURE

    TEM NO EQUIPMENT QUANTITY REQUIRED

    • Poultry/Pig House/Battery Cages : 1
    • Cattle/Goat/Sheep Pen : 1
    • Rabbit/Grass cutter Hutch : 1
    • Snairy/Bee Hive : 1
  2. LIVE ANIMALS
    • Poultry/Pig 10
    • Rabbits/Grass cutter 10
    • Cattle/Sheep/Goat 10
    • Snails/Bees 50/100
  3. SPECIMEN
    • Tick
    • Lice
    • Liver fluke
    • Tapeworm
    • Roundworm
    • Flea
    • Tsetse fly
    • Pests
  4. CHARTS AND PICTURES
    • Digestive system of ruminants 5
    • Digestive system of non-ruminants 5
    • Reproductive organs of male livestock 5
    • Reproductive organs of female livestock 5
    • Reproductive tract of poultry 5
    • Skeletal system of farm animals 5
    • Circulatory system 5
    • Muscular system 5
    • Endocrine system 5
    • Calendar of ovulation 5
    • Calendar of Oestrus cycle 5
    • Classes of farm animals 5
    • Calendar of heat period 5
    • Calendar of animal diseases 5
  5. MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT
    • Buddizor pliers/castrators 2
    • Elastrators 2
    • Debeakers 2
    • Candlers 2
    • Dehorning saw 4
    • Ear notching knife 2
    • Electro-ejaculator 2
    • Artificial Inseminators 2
    • Hand sprayer/Knapsack sprayer 2
    • Refrigerators to store materials 2
    • Clinical thermometer 2
    • Films Many
    • Television 2
    • CD Video Player 2
    • 16mm Film Projector 2
  6. DRUGS/VACCINES/MATERIALS
    • First aids kits/boxes containing surgical blades, cotton wool, iodine and razor. 2
    • Sterilizers e.g. Dettol, Izal 4
    • Syringes and Needles 10
    • Vaccines (various forms) 5
    • Formalin, etc. 2 bottles
  7. FEED SAMPLES
    • Bone meal ½ kg
    • Blood meal ½ kg
    • Fish meal ½ kg
    • Groundnut cake ½ kg
    • Maize grains ½ kg
    • Groundnut meal ½ kg
    • Coconut meal ½ kg
    • Egg shell meal ½ kg
    • Palm kernel meal ½ kg
    • Periwinkle shell ½ kg
    • Mineral salt lick, etc. ½ kg
  8. EQUIPMENT QUANTITY REQUIRED
    • Feeding trough (Metal and Plastic) 5
    • Drinkers (Metal and Plastic) 5
    • Lanterns (source of heat) 5
    • Foot dips 5
    • Notebooks for Accounts and Records 5
    • Wheelbarrow 5


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