Livestock Production

Lecture notes covering Livestock and Poultry Management as per ICAR 5th Dean Committee syllabus. Course Code: LPM 201 | Credits: 4(3+1).

Understand how livestock and poultry support farm income, nutrition, soil fertility, and risk reduction in Indian agriculture.

Various systems of livestock.

Integrated Farming.

Definition of breed.

Breeding- importance.

Housing management-farm.

Systems of housing.

Learn the immediate care, colostrum feeding, housing, hygiene, and heifer management practices required for healthy calf rearing.

Care & mgt- pregnant.

Milk-Definition — clean.

Processing of milk-Cooling.

Nutrition-Definition-Ration.

Requirement and importance.

Diseases-classification-viral.

Viral Diseases-Foot.

Gateway to BSc Agriculture livestock production topics, with practical coverage of animal management, feeding, breeding, housing, and health.

Zoonotic diseases.

Sheep And Goat Farming.

Systems of rearing.

Care And Management.

Care And Management.

Common ailments of sheep.

Swine Husbandry.

Care & management of Sow.

Classification of poultry.

Care&management -day old.

Systems of housing.

Raised Platform.

Care & management -layers.

Care&management-broilers.

Poultry Nutrition.

Feed Conversion Ratio.

Study the main groups of poultry diseases, the role of vaccination, and practical flock health operations used in disease prevention.

Bacterial diseases.