PREV

• week 1 Traits of economic importance in farm animals.
• week 2 Exercises on the maintenance and standardization of productive and reproductive records
• week 3 selection of dairy heifers and bulls.
• week 4 use of standardized records, relative economic values.
• week 5 breeding values and selection indices; crossbreeding for milk and meat production
• week 6 Traits of economic importance in poultry and their improvement
• week 7 formation of breeding stock for layers and broilers, development of dual purpose birds and rural poultry.
• week 8 National breeding policy for improvement and conservation of livestock.
• week 9 Exercises on the estimation of relative economic values.
• week 10 Construction of selection indices for large and small animals.
• week 11Construction of selection indices for large and small animals.
• week 12 Orientation of computer packages for animal conservation and evaluation.
• week 13Future breeding plans for genetic improvement of farm animals in different agro-ecological zones of Pakistan
• week 14 Emerging bio-technologies for increasing animal productivity.
• week 15 Biotechnologies in animal breeding.
• week 16 review