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TNPSC – SYLLABUS – ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE – CODE NO. 296 – UG STANDARD

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UNIT – I – GENERAL

  • Role of livestock and their products in Indian economy and human health
  • current livestock programmes and policies of State and Nation
  • Economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; constraints to the livestock development programs
  • common offences against animals – SPCA, Animal Welfare Board of India, NGOs.

UNIT – II : LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT

  • Common terms used in Animal Husbandry
  • Identification of age of animals
  • Livestock and poultry breeds and breed characters
  • Livestock and poultry housing systems, and requirements of space, ventilation, water, sanitation and waste disposal.
  • Management of milk, meat, egg and wool producing livestock, breeding bulls and draft animals and wild animals in captivity
  • Farm records and their maintenance
  • Systems and strategies for livestock improvement for enhancing productivity.

UNIT – III : LIVESTOCK NUTRITION

  • Nutritional terms and definitions
  • Role of nutrition in health and production
  • classification and composition of feed and fodders including forest grasses
  • anti- nutritional factors and toxins in feeds and fodders
  • feeding standards and nutrient requirements of different categories of livestock / poultry and computation of rations.
  • Nutritional deficiency and its influence on livestock performance
  • feed supplements and additives
  • conservation and preservation of feed and fodders
  • economic utilization of agro by-products for feeding livestock
  • Utilisation of unconventional feeds
  • Wildlife nutrition
  • Quality control of feed
  • feed block/baling
  • By-Pass Proteins and by-pass Fat
  • Feeding livestock during scarcity
  • Metabolic disorders in Livestock and Poultry
  • Processing of feeds and forage to improve nutritive value.

UNIT – IV : LIVESTOCK BREEDING AND GENETICS

  • Important breeds of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry with special reference to economic characters
  • Important species of wild animals and their breeding in captivity
  • Selection of Livestock for production, reproduction and disease resistance traits
  • Principles of genetics and basis of population genetics, genetic parameters
  • Nature of DNA and RNA-their models and functions
  • Applications of recombinant DNA technology, cloning and marker Assisted selection and Cytogenetics
  • Animal breeding policies and programmes in state and Nation

UNIT – V : VETERINARY ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

  • Gross study of bones, joints and muscles of skeleton
  • Gross study of heart and its conduction system
  • Gross study of organs of digestive, respiratory urinary and reproductive systems
  • Digestion, metabolism and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in simple stomach animals and ruminants
  • Mechanism of respiration
  • General functions of blood (blood cells, plasma & serum) coagulation
  • cardiac cycle
  • Blood circulation
  • Blood pressure
  • renal function
  • Hormonal control of Lactogenesis
  • Environmental factors affecting animal production
  • Environmental stress on animal performance
  • Green Houses Gases – Role of ruminants

UNIT – VI : VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY, VETERINARY PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

  • Bacteriology & Mycology:
    • Classification – isolation, identification and culturing of bacteria and fungi
    • Methods of transmission of infection
    • Sterilization and disinfection
    • Antibiogram
  • Virology:
    • Classification
    • cultivation
    • replication
    • General characteristics of various families of RNA and DNA viruses
  • Immunology
    • Immune system organs
    • tissues and cells
    • infection and immunity
    • type and grade of immunity
    • serological reactions and modern diagnostic techniques
    • vaccine
  • Epidemiology
    • Concept, Scope, Objectives and Uses of Epidemiology
    • Monitoring and surveillance- epidemiological disciplines
    • Pathogenesis, clinical signs, differential diagnosis, prevention and control of common bacterial, viral, fungal, rickettsial and parasitic diseases of livestock, poultry and pet animals including wild life species-
    • Regional, endemic, emerging and re-emerging important disease. Allergic skin tests and modern diagnostic techniques.

UNIT – VII : PATHOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY

  • Pathology
    • Concept and causes of diseases in animals
    • general principles and procedures of necropsy
    • collection, preservation and dispatch of morbid materials for laboratory diagnosis
    • disease investigation
    • common pathological conditions seen in domestic, wild, zoo and laboratory animals and birds
    • Vetro-legal implications.
  • Parasitology
    • Classification of Parasites
    • Parasite and parasitism in animals
    • important morphological features, life-cycles, mode of transmission, pathogenesis, diagnosis, chemotherapy and general control measures of parasites associated with disease in animals, birds and zoo animals.

UNIT – VIII : PHARMACOLOGY

  • Drug action
  • Pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, biotransformation and excretion)
  • Pharmacodynamics
  • Local and general anesthetics
  • Antibiotics and chemotherapy
  • Toxicology
  • Ethnoveterinary practices.

UNIT – IX : VETERINARY CLINICAL MEDICINE, VETERINARY GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS AND VETERINARY SURGERY AND RADIOLOGY

  • General and special clinical examination, etiology, clinical signs, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and control of metabolic, deficiency diseases.
  • Ethics and jurisprudence in domestic and wild animals.
  • Reproductive physiology; hormones and reproduction; Accidents of gestation, livestock fertility and infertility; artificial insemination; semen characteristics of different species of livestock and cryopreservation. Multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology in livestock and zoo animals Reproductive disorders and their management.
  • General surgical principles – Pre and post-operative considerations, anesthesia, asepsis and anti-sepsis and sterilization; scope, history and development of veterinary radiology; Imaging pathology of different parts of body-surgical emergencies – Intensive care – Physiotherapy – Diathermy.

UNIT- X : LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY

  • Ante mortem and Post mortem inspection – Objectives of meat inspection – Abattoir practices, methods of slaughtering and dressing; Meat Inspection Laws, utilization of by products; unsound meat and its disposal; quality control of meat and eggs and their products. Milk: Proximate Composition, milk collection, cooling / chilling and transportation; physio-chemical and nutritional characters of milk and milk products; processing of raw milk and production of market milk. Condensed and dried milk, special milk and Indian Dairy Products – Packaging and storage.
  • Cleaning and sanitization of dairy equipments and plants; role of micro- organisms in milk and milk products; legal standards and quality assessment of milk and milk products-role of milk and milk products, meat and egg in human nutrition – Detection of adulterants in milk. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in dairy and Hazard analysis in critical control point (HACCP) in dairy Processing. FSSAI laws.

UNIT- X : LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY

  • Ante mortem and Post mortem inspection – Objectives of meat inspection – Abattoir practices, methods of slaughtering and dressing; Meat Inspection Laws, utilization of by products; unsound meat and its disposal; quality control of meat and eggs and their products. Milk: Proximate Composition, milk collection, cooling / chilling and transportation; physio-chemical and nutritional characters of milk and milk products; processing of raw milk and production of market milk. Condensed and dried milk, special milk and Indian Dairy Products – Packaging and storage.
  • Cleaning and sanitization of dairy equipments and plants; role of micro- organisms in milk and milk products; legal standards and quality assessment of milk and milk products-role of milk and milk products, meat and egg in human nutrition – Detection of adulterants in milk. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in dairy and Hazard analysis in critical control point (HACCP) in dairy Processing. FSSAI laws.
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