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Animal Husbandry

Livestock Management

Key Points

  • Ruminants have 4-stomach chambers: rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum
  • Foot-and-mouth disease: viral, affects cloven-hoofed animals
  • Newcastle disease: poultry; African Swine Fever: pigs
  • Cattle gestation: 280 days; Pigs: 114 days; Rabbits: 31 days
  • Trypanosomiasis transmitted by tsetse fly

Practice Questions

2 questions
1

The gestation period of a cow is approximately:

2

Which of the following is a ruminant animal?