| Role and importance of animal production systems in agricultural enterprises: poultry, pigs, beef and dairy cattle, deer, sheep, goats, rabbits, production potential of novel species. Constraints to animals productivity and production. Public concerns over animal production practices. Fundamental stockmanship for managing farm animals: rationing; weighing and tagging; usage of preventive and diagnostic equipment; handling and restraining animals, animal's environment; evaluation of body condition score; performance records. Diagnosing farm animal abnormal behaviour. Animal housing evaluation. |
Administrative assistant: Kajol Jogarah
Telephone: 4037400
Email: k.jogarah@uom.ac.mu |
