This course will help to improve the knowledge of students about health and diseases of farm animals which is to be applied in their practical life. Farmers can improve the health, welfare and productivity of their animals through animal health planning. Animal Health Planning is a continuous improvement method that encourages the development of health building and disease control measures appropriate to the particular farm circumstances leading to a system that is progressively less dependent on veterinary medicines without jeopardizing welfare. A farm animal health plan is an active management tool aimed at promoting the health and welfare of farm animals by setting out disease prevention, detection and management procedures. It should be based on farm specific issues and at its most basic, it should be ensure that illness, injury and mortality amongst farmed animals are at minimum levels. More progressively, it should also be seen as providing procedures that promote positive health and welfare.) This course will provide a comprehensive knowledge about vaccines and vaccination schedules of common diseases of our farm animals. Students will be able to collect samples for disease diagnosis.

The key objectives/outcomes of this course are;

• Students will be able to identify important diseases of livestock.

Theory

Concept of farm animal medicine/herd medicine; methods of prevention and control of diseases in farm animals; recognition of systemic disorders and introduction to bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic and metabolic disorders in farm animals, Biosecurity on farms; systemic disorders: Chocking, indigestion, impaction, colic, tympany, pneumonia and mange etc. Bacterial diseases: mastitis, hemorrhagic septicaemia, black leg, salmonellosis, tuberculosis, paratuberculosis, brucellosis, actinobacillosis, actinomycosis, malignant oedema, mycoplasmosis, Q-fever and bovine farcy. Viral diseases: ephemeral fever, foot and mouth disease, Rinder pest, PPR, bovine viral diarrhoea, bovine malingnant catarrh, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, blue tongue, bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Fungal diseases: Ring worm, aspergillosis, histoplasmosis, dermatophilosis, candidiasis, deg-nala disease and mycotoxicosis; Parasitic diseases: coccidiosis, anaplasmosis, bebesiosis, and theileriosis, diseases caused by nematodes, cestodes, termatodes and arthopodes. Metabolic disorders and deficiency diseases: parturient hemoglobinuria, milk fever, transit tetany, lactation tetany, hypo-magnasemic tetany, ketosis. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies/imbalances; poultry: gumboro, ND, pullorum, CRD etc.

Practical

Vaccination and deworming schedule for farm animals; mastitis microbiology; sensitivity profiling, evaluation of mastitis treatment formulations and teat dips; screening tests of mastitis; evaluation of milking machine; microbiological examination of milk and other dairy products for potential human health pathogens, diagnostic techniques for brucellosis, glanders, tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, hydatidosis etc. ; detection of antibiotic residues in milk and other dairy products; manual and computerized farm records.

• Hungerford. T. G. 1991. Hungerford's Disease of Livestock. 9th Ed, McGraw-Hill Book Company. Sydney.

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Sessional: 08

Mid-term: 12

Final Exam: 20

Practical: 20

Following items are mandatory:

• 80% class attendance.
• Maintenance of practical notebook.
• Participation in all practical performances and class activities.

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