ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Flashcards
_____ is the agricultural practice of breeding and rainsing livestock
animal husbandry
animal husbandry is a vital skill for farmers and it is as much ___ as it is ___
science
art
animal husbandry includes(5)
poultry fisheries apiculture sericulture lac culture
more than 70% of the livestock populaton is found in ____, and productivity of the livestock is ___
india and china
25%
what is dairy farm management
management of animals for milk and other products like fertiliser fuel meat glue leather gelatin, transportatoin etc.
best cattle is found in ___ areas
dry
there are ____ cattle breeds in india
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cattle breeds are divided into the foloowing groups (5)
milch drought general utility exotic improved
___ breed gives higher milk yield?
milch
name 4 examples of milch breed and where they are found
gir-RJ guj.
sahiwal– punjab haryana uttar prad.
red sindhi: andra pradesh
deoni– andhra pradesh
what are drought breeds of cow used for
used for work
give 4 examples of drought breeds
malvi–RJ MP
nagori– karnatak UP
hallikar– south india
kangayam– south india
____ breeds are used to give milk and also do work
general utility breeds
name 4 examples of general utility breeds
haryana– HR, UP, Punj
ongole- andhra pradesh
kankrej- gujarat
tharparker: gujarat andhra pradesh
exotic breeds are from ____
foreign countries
exotic breeds are mostly also
milch breeds
name 4 examples of exotic breeds (and where they are from)
jersey cow: england
brown swiss: switzerland
holstein-freisian: Holand
ayrshire: scotland
____ is the best milch breed of the world
holstein freisian
what are improved breeds
developed by the cross of high performance breeds
name 3 improved breeds
karan swiss
karan fries
sunandini
karan swiss is obtained by the cross of
karnal(in haryana) * brown swiss
karan fries is obtained by cross of
karnal(in haryana) * holstein freisian
sunandini is obtained by cross of
local cow of kerela * exotic cow
NDRI full form, and where is it
national dairy research institute
karnal,haryana
IVRI full form and where it is
indian veternary research institute
barriley, uttar pradesh
name 7 indian buffalo breeds
murrah(imp)
bhadawari
jaffrabadi
surti
mehsana
nagpuri
nili ravi
where is murrah breed of buffalo found
haryana
where is bhadwari breed of buffalo found
up mp
jaffrabadi buffalo breed is found in
gujarat
surti buffalo is found in gujarat
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mehsana buffalo breed is found in
maharahtra
gujarat
nagpuri buffalo is found in
maharashtra
nili ravi buffalo is found in
ravi river
feed/fodder consists of
roughage+concentrate
roughage is ___ rich
cellulose
concentrate is ____ rich
protein
eg of roughage
dry grass
5 examples of concentrate
gram, rice, cotton seed, oil caje, gram bran
name 4 imp diseases of cattle
anthrax
black quarter’
rinder pest
foot and mouth disorder
antrax is caused by ___
Bacillus anthracis
what happens in anthrax
blood mixed with foam come out of natural openings
black quarter disease caused by
clostridium
what happens in black quarter
fever, 1/4 antherior portion of cattle turns blackish
rinderpest is aka
cattle plague
rinderpest is caused by
paramyxovirus
what happens in rinderpest
high fever, severe diarrhoea
foot and mouth disease is caused by
picorna virus
foot and mouth disease affects
mouth, hoof, teats(mammary glands)
what is poultry
poultry is the class of domesticated fowl used for food and eggs which includes chiken duck turkey geese
the birds which are cultivated for meat are known as
broilers
example of broiler
plymoth rock
the birds which are cultivated for eggs are known as
layyers
EG OF EGG LAYER
HH260 (lays 260 eggs per year) (v.low mortality rate)
name 4 significances of poultryu
easy to do
can control climatic condition
easily managable
egg,meat: protein rich
what is the scientific name of domestic fowl
Gallus gallus
name7 indigenous poultry breeds
aseel ghagus karaknath bhrama busra black bengal chittagong
___ is used for cock fighting
aseel
name 7 exotic poultry breeds
white leg horn rhode island red plymoth rock new hampshire sussex australop minorca
where is miorca fouwl from
egypt
name an imporved fowl
HH260
