AH & VS | Paper 1

Outline of Course
Animal Reproduction
Lecture 1: Syllabus & Previous years papers of Reproduction
Lecture 2: Male Reproductive Tract, its Functions, Blood & Nerve supply
Lecture 3: Semen quality, its Preservation and Artificial Insemination
Lecture 4: Semen collection and Factor affecting Conception Rate
Lecture 5: Repeat breeding
Lecture 6: Anoestrus in Dairy Cows
Lecture 7: Detection of oestrus and time of insemination for better conception
Lecture 8: Components of Semen and Composition of spermatozoa
Lecture 9: Physical and Chemical Properties of Semen
Lecture 10: Factors affecting quality and quantity of semen
Lecture 11 : Ideal Properties and Composition of Semen Dilutor
Lecture 12: Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine and poultry
Lecture 13: Semen handling and Transport of semen
Lecture 14: Gynecological disorders which lead to infertility
Animal Nutrition
Lecture 1: Syllabus and Previous Years Questions of Animal Nutrition
Lecture 2: Partitioning of food energy within the animal
4 Topics
Direct and indirect calorimetry
Carbon – nitrogen balance and comparative slaughter methods
Energy Requirements in Cow and Buffalo
Energy & Protein Requirements for Wool, Meat and Egg production
Lecture 3: Latest advances in protein nutrition
4 Topics
Protein requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation
Evaluation of protein quality
Energy protein interrelationships
Use of Non-Protein Nitrogen (NPN) Compounds in Ruminants Diets
Lecture 4: Major and trace minerals
1 Topic
Role of fat-soluble and water – soluble vitamins in the body, their sources and deficiency symptoms
Lecture 5: Feed additives
1 Topic
Use and abuse of growth promoters like hormones and antibiotics – latest concepts
Lecture 6: Conservation of fodders
5 Topics
Storage of feeds and feed ingredients
Recent advances in feed technology and feed processing
Feed analysis and quality control
Anti – nutritional and toxic factors present in livestock feeds
Digestibility trials – direct, indirect and indicator methods and Predicting feed intake in grazing animals
Lecture 7: Advances in ruminant nutrition
5 Topics
Balanced rations
Feeding of calves, pregnant, work animals and breeding bulls
Strategies for feeding milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle
Effect of feeding on milk composition. Feeding of goats for meat and milk production
Feeding of sheep for meat and wool production
Lecture 8: Swine Nutrition
2 Topics
Nutrient requirements: Creep, starter, grower and finisher rations
Feeding of pigs for lean meat production. Low cost rations for swine
Lecture 9: Poultry nutrition
2 Topics
Nutrient requirements for meat and egg production
Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and broilers
Animal Physiology
Lecture 1: Syllabus and Previous Years Questions of Physiology
Lecture 2: Blood constituents
6 Topics
Haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry
Plasma proteins production
Coagulation of blood
Haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants-blood groups-Blood volume
Plasma expanders-Buffer systems in blood.
Biochemical tests and their significance in disease diagnosis.
Lecture 3: Circulation – Physiology of heart
11 Topics
Cardiac cycle, Heat sound, Heart beat & Electrocardiogram
Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart function, metabolism of cardiac muscle
Nervous and chemical regulation of heart
Effect of temperature and stress on heart
Blood pressure and hypertension
Osmotic regulation
Arterial pulse
Vasomotor regulation of circulation
Shock
Coronary and pulmonary circulation
Blood-Brain barrier- Cerebrospinal fluid- circulation in birds
Lecture 4: Respiration – Mechanism of respiration
1 Topic
Transport and exchange of gases -neural control of respiration-chemoreceptors-hypoxia-respiration in birds
Lecture 5: Excretion-Structure and function of kidney.
4 Topics
formation of urine-methods of studying renal function .
Renal regulation of acid-base balance
Physiological constituents of urine-renal failure-passive venous congestion.
Urinary secretion in chicken-Sweat glands and their function-Bio-chemical test for urinary dysfunction.
Lecture 6: Endocrine glands
2 Topics
Synthesis of hormones
Mechanism and control of secretion- hormonal receptors, classification and function
Lecture 7: Growth and Animal Production
2 Topics
Maturation, growth curves, measures of growth
Factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition & meat quality
Lecture 8: Physiology of Milk Production
4 Topics
Current status of hormonal control of mammary development
Milk secretion and milk ejection
Male and Female reproductive organs, their components and functions
Digestive organs and their functions
Lecture 9: Environmental Physiology, Physiological relations and their regulation
6 Topics
Mechanisms of adaptation
Environmental factors and Regulatory mechanisms involved in animal behaviour
Climatology – various parameters and their importance
Animal ecology
Physiology of behaviour
Effect of stress on health and production
4. Animal Genetics & Breeding
Lecture 1: Syllabus and Previous Years Question Papers of AGB
Lecture 2: History of animal genetics, Mitosis and Meiosis
Lecture 3: Mendelian & Deviations to Mendelian genetics
Lecture 4: Recombinant DNA technology. Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate. Trans-genesis
Lecture 5: Expression of genes
Lecture 6: Linkage and crossing over; Sex determination, sex influenced and sex-limited characters
Lecture 7: Blood groups and polymorphism; Chromosome aberrations; Cytoplasmic inheritance
Lecture 8: Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; Genetic code and protein synthesis
Lecture 9: Recombinant DNA technology. Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate. Trans-genesis
Lecture 10: Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding- Quantitative Vs. qualitative trait
4 Topics
Hardy Weinberg Law; Population Vs. individual; Gene and genotypic frequency
Forces changing gene frequency; Random drift and small populations
Effective population size; Breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation; Partitioning of variation
Genotype X environment correlation and genotype X environment interaction; role of multiple measurements; Resemblance between relatives
Lecture 11: Breeding Systems- Breeds of livestock and Poultry
6 Topics
Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates
Aids to selection and their relative merits; Individual, pedigree, family and within family selection
Progeny testing; Methods of selection; Construction of selection indices and their uses
Comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods; Indirect selection and correlated response
Breeding; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial production, Theory of path coefficient; Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding
Selection for general and specific combining ability; Sire index
5. Livestock production management (LPM)
Introductory Lecture : Syllabus and Previous years Papers of LPM
Lecture 1: Economic consideration in Livestock farming
Lecture 2: Commercial Dairy Farming
Lecture 3: Dairying under mixed farming and as specialized farming
Lecture 4: Difference Between Mixed and Specialized Farming
Lecture 5: Economic dairy farming
Lecture 6: Starting of a dairy farm, Capital and land requirement, Organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming
Lecture 7: Constraints of dairy farming in India
Lecture 8: Traits of economic importance in different animals
Lecture 9 : Important Traits influencing Milk Production in Cow and Buffalo
Lecture 10: Factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal
Lecture 11: Herd recording
Lecture : 12 Pricing System
Lecture : 13 Record Keeping
Lecture : 14 Cost Of Milk Production
Lecture 15 : Personal Management
Lecture 16: Supply of greens throughout the year
Lecture 17: Feed and fodder requirements of Dairy Farm
Lecture 18: Developing Practical and Economic rations for dairy cattle
Lecture 19: Feeding regimes for Young Stock and Bulls, Heifers and Breeding animals; New trends in Feeding Young and Adult stock; Feeding records
Lecture 20: Commercial meat, egg and wool production
Lecture 21: Development of practical and economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry
Lecture 22: Socio economic Concept
Lecture 23: Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural calamities
6. Extension
Syllabus and Previous years Papers of Extension
Lecture 1 : Basic philosophy, Objectives, Concept and Principles of Extension
Lecture 2 : Different Methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions
Lecture 3 : Generation of technology , Its transfer and feedback, Problems and Constraints in transfer of technology
Lecture 4 : Animal husbandry programme for rural development
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Syllabus and Previous years Papers of Extension

AH & VS | Paper 1 Syllabus and Previous years Papers of Extension

Syllabus

Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension.

Different Methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions. Generation of technology, its transfer and feedback.

Problems and constraints in transfer of technology.

Animal husbandry programmes for rural development.

Previous years Papers of Extension

2019

List out various sheep development programmes taken up in India. What are the constraints in implementation of these programmes and how to overcome them?

Explains the principles of extension education in India.

2018

Write in detail about the constraints in transfer of technology to the farmers.

Discuss in detail about different animal husbandry programmes for rural development in India.

2017

Advantages and disadvantages of individual contact method of extension.

Discuss the cattle and sheep development programme for improving the economic status of farmers.

2016

  • What are the fundamental objectives of extension? Write the aims of extensions in accordance with National Commission on Agriculture.
  • What is the importance of extension programme in the Indian farming system? What are the different methods utilised by extension workers in training farmers?
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