OBJECTIVES
To impart knowledge to the students with respect to
- External body parts of livestock's
- Routine Management practices followed on livestock farm
- Methods of handling and restraining of animals
- Methods of identification marks and dehorning of livestock's
- Recording physiological ups and downs of livestock's
- preparation of feeding schedule for different categories of livestock's
- Estimation of age and weight of livestock
- Clean and hygienic milk production practices
- Judging of livestock's for dairy and draft purpose
- Vaccination and control of ecto and endo parasites.
- Study of various dairy structures.
- Artificial insemination and pregnancy diagnosis in farm animals.
- Utilization of dairy farm wastes.
- Incubation and hatching of eggs.
Facilities available:
- Poultry hatchery unit
- Instructional Livestock farm unit
- Production of probiotics/ fermented milk products unit.
- Molecular diagnostics for diseased/disordered animals.
- Cryopreservation unit for dissemination of frozen Semen of elite species.
- Artificial Insemination.
- Formats for dairy farm records.
- Poultry farm
- Media preparation, sterilization and aseptic methods for isolation, identification, preservation and storage.
- Detection of animal pathogens by using PCR based technique
- Sperm preparation techniques.
Instruments-
Muffle furnace, Digital PH meter, Autoclave Exec, Laboratory centrifuge, Refrigerator, Water bath, Laminar air flow, Liquid nitrogen container, Hot air oven walled chambered size, Cream separator machine, Gerber centrifuge, Analytical weighing balance, LPG connection set, Dairy steel equipments, Spectrophotometer, Tribicular research microscope, Vortex mixture, Bacteriological incubator, Lock stopper metallic with key, Butyrometer Regulating key, Egg tray, Spherometer, Bull nose rings, Bull holder with thumb, Bull nose punch, Horn cutting wire saw with handle, Dehorner electrical type, Dehorner non electrical type, Hoof trimmer, Milk siphon, Clipping scissors, Tattooing ink, Sheep shear, Automatic drenching gun, Ear tag brass with number 16 mm, Ear tag brass with number 22 mm, Veterinary thermometer, Vaginal speculum 8’’, Mouth feeding bottle for animal, IV set, IV stand, Applicator for ear tag brass, Stomach tube, Artificial vagina working set, Artificial insemination set, Veterinary stethoscope, Injection syringe, Burdizzo castrator small, Canula tracer and Gotha set of equipments, Paneer press.