Animal Husbandry ALT B Waec Syllabus
Below is this 2026 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
- Importance of farm animals
- Classification of farm animals
- Classification of farm animals.
- Identification of ruminants and
non-ruminants.
- Internal organs and their functions in farm animals
- Body systems and their functions in farm animals
- 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
- Meaning and classes of animal feeds
- Animal feeds and feeding
- Livestock rations
- Formulation of livestock rations
- Processing and marketing of animal products
- Processing techniques for different farm animal products.
- Marketing of animal products
PASTURE AND RANGE MANAGEMENT
- Pasture management
- Meaning and importance of
pasture and forage crops - Types of pasture and forage
crops - Terminologies in pasture
management
- Meaning and importance of
- Rangeland improvement
- Meaning and characteristics of
rangelands - Methods of rangeland
improvement - Importance of rangeland
- Meaning and characteristics of
ANIMAL IMPROVEMENT
- Animal improvement
- Meaning of animal improvement
- Aims/importance of farm animal
improvement
- Methods of farm animal improvement
- Methods used in farm animal
improvement - Merits and demerits of methods
used in farm animal improvement
- Methods used in farm animal
- Artificial insemination
- Meaning of artificial insemination.
- Methods of artificial
insemination - Advantages of artificial
insemination
ANIMAL HEALTH
- 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
- Livestock parasites and pests
- Livestock parasites
- Livestock pests
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (PRACTICALS)
- Products and by-products of farm animals
- Identification of farm animals
- Internal organs and their functions in farm animals
- Tools and equipment used in management of farm animals
- Feeds and feedstuffs
- Pasture and forage crops
- Artificial insemination
- Pests and parasites of farm animals
- Pests of farm animals
- Parasites of farm animals
LIST OF FACILITIES AND MAJOR EQUIPMENT
- FARM BUILDING/STRUCTURE
ITEM NO EQUIPMENT QUANTITY REQUIRED
- Poultry/Pig House/Battery Cages : 1
- Cattle/Goat/Sheep Pen : 1
- Rabbit/Grass cutter Hutch : 1
- Snairy/Bee Hive : 1
- LIVE ANIMALS
- Poultry/Pig 10
- Rabbits/Grass cutter 10
- Cattle/Sheep/Goat 10
- Snails/Bees 50/100
- SPECIMEN
- Tick
- Lice
- Liver fluke
- Tapeworm
- Roundworm
- Flea
- Tsetse fly
- Pests
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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