Improvement in food resources long 6

Question 1

What are the food requirements of dairy animals

Answer 1

/ maintenance requirement, which is the food required to support the animal to live a healthy life,
/ milk producing requirement, which is the type of food required during the lactation
period. Animal feed includes:
(a) roughage,
(b) concentrates,
certain feed additives containing micronutrients promote the health and milk output of dairy animals.

Question 2

Give a note about diseases in dairy animals

Answer 2

The diseases, besides causing death, reduce milk production.The external parasites live on the skin and mainly cause skin diseases. The internal parasites like worms, affect stomach and intestine while flukes damage the liver.

Question 3

How are poultry birds taken care of ?

Answer 3

/ Broiler chickens are fed with vitamin-rich feed for good growth rate
/ Care is taken to maintain feathering and carcass quality.
/ Importanance is given to maintenance of temperature and hygienic conditions in housing and poultry feed
/ Prevention and control of diseases and pests.
/ The ration for broilers is rich with vitamins A and K.