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Paper I : Animal_Husbandry_Veterinary_Science for IFoS Mains Exam
Max. Marks: 200
Duration: 3 hours
1. Animal Nutrition
Energy sources, energy, metabolism and requirements for
maintenance and production of milk, meat, eggs and wool. Evaluation of feeds as
sources of energy.
1.1. Trends in protein nutrition: sources of protein metabolism and synthesis, protein
quantity and quality in relation to requirements. Energy protein ratios in ration.
1.2. Minerals in animal diet : Sources, functions, requirements and their relationship of
the basic minerals nutrients including trace elements.
1.3. Vitamins, Hormones and Growth Stimulating, substances : Sources, functions,
requirements and inter-relationship with minerals.
1.4. Advances in Ruminant Nutrition-Dairy Cattle: Nutrients and their metabolism with
reference to milk production and its composition. Nutrient requirements for calves,
heifers, dry and milking cows and buffaloes. Limitations of various feeding systems.
1.5 Advances in Non-Ruminant Nutrition-Poultry-Nutrients and their metabolism with
reference to poultry, meat and egg production, Nutrients requirements and feed
formulation and broilers at different ages.
1.6 Advances in Non-Ruminant Nutrition-Swine-Nutrients and their metabolism with
special reference to growth and quality of meat production, Nutrient requirement and
feed formulation for baby-growing and finishing pigs.
1.7. Advances in Applied Animal Nutrition-A critical review and evaluation of feeding
experiments, digestibility and balance studies. Feeding standards and measures of food
energy. Nutrition requirements for growth, maintenance and production. Balanced
rations.
2. Animal Physiology :
2.1 Growth and Animal Production :-Prenatal and postnatal growth, maturation, growth
curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition,
meat quality.
2.2 Milk Production and Reproduction and Digestion : Current status of hormonal
control of mammary development, milk secretion and milk ejection. Male and Female
reproduction organ, their components and function. Digestive organs and their
functions.
2.3 Environmental Physiology : Physiological relations and their regulation;
mechanisms of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanism involved
in animal behaviour, methods of controlling climatic stress.
2.4 Semen quality : Preservation and Artificial Insemination-Components of semen,
composition of spermatozoe, chemical and physical properties of ejaculated semen,
factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro. Factors affecting semen production and
quality preservation, composition of diluents, sperm concentration, transport of diluted
semen. Deep Freezing techniques in cows, sheep and goats, swine and poultry.
Detection of oestrus and time of insemination for better conception.
3. Livestock Production and Management :
3.1 Commercial Dairy Farming-Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced
countries. Dairying under fixed farming and as a specialised farming, economic dairy
farming, Starting of a dairy farm. Capital and land requirement, organisation of the
dairy farm.
Procurement of goods; opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the
efficiency of dairy animal, Herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production; pricing
policy; Personnel Management. Developing Practical and Economic ration for dairy
cattle; supply of greens throughout the year, field and fodder requirements of Dairy
Farm, Feeding regimes for day and young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding
animals, new trends in feeding young and adult stock; Feeding records.
3.2. Commercial meat, egg and wool production:
Development of practical and
economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry. Supply of greens, fodder,
feeding regimens for young and mature stock. New trends in enhancing production and
management. Capital and land requirements and socio-economic concept.
3.3. Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural
calamities.
4. Genetics and Animal Breeding :
Mitosis and Meiosis; Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian genetics; Expression of genes; Linkage and crossing over; Sex
determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters; Blood groups and
polymorphism; Chromosome aberrations; Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic
material; Genetic code and protein synthesis; Recombinant DNA technology,
Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate.
4.1 Population Genetics Applied to Animal Breeding:
Quantitative Vs. qualitative
traits; Hardy Weinberg Law; Population Vs. individual; Gene and genotypic frequency;
Forces changing gene frequency; Random drift and small populations; Theory of path
coefficient; Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of
inbreeding; Effective population size; Breeding value, estimation of breeding value,
dominance and epistatic deviation; partitioning of variation; Genotype X environment
correlation and genotype X environment interaction; Role of multiple measurements;
Resemblance between relatives.
4.2 Breeding Systems :
Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates; Aids to selection
and their relative merits; Individual, pedigree, family and within family selection;
Progeny testing; Methods of selection; Construction of selection indices and their uses;
Comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods; Indirect
selection and Correlated response; Inbreeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis
of brees; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; Selection for general and
specific combining ability; Breeding for threshold character.
Paper II : Animal_Husbandry_Veterinary_Science for IFoS Mains Exam
Max. Marks: 200
Duration: 3 hours
1. Health and Hygiene
1.1. Histology and Histological Techniques :
Stains-Chemical classification of stains used in biological work-principles of staining tissues-mordants-progressive &
regressive stains-differential staining of cytoplasmic and connective tissue elements-
Methods of preparation and processing of tissues-celloidin embedding-Freezing
microtomy-Microscopy-Bright field microscope and electron microscope. Cytologystructure
of cell, organells & inclusions; cell division-cell types-Tissues and their
classification-embryonic and adult tissues-Comparative histology of organs:- vascular,
Nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and urogenital systems-Endocrine
glands-Integuments-sense organs.
1.2. Embryology :
Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and domestic mammals-gametogenesis-fertilization-germ layers-foetal membranes &
placentation-types of placenta in domestic mammals-Teratology-twin & twinningorganogenesis-
germ layer derivatives-endodermal, mesodermal and ectodermal
derivatives.
1.3 Bovine Anatomy-Regional Anatomy :
Paranasal sinuses of OX-surface anatomy of salivary glands. Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibuloalveolar,
mental & coronal nerve block-Regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudental
nerve, median, ulnar & radial nerves-tibial, fibular and digital nerves-Cranial nervesstructures
involved in epidural anaesthesia-superficial lymph nodes-surface anatomy of
visceral organs of thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities-comparative features of
locomotor apparatus & their application in the biomechanics of mammalian body.
1.4 Anatomy of Fowl :
Musculo-skeletal system-functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying, digestion and egg production.
1.5 Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration; excretion, Endocrine
glands in health and disease.
1.5.1 Blood constituents :
Properties and functions-blood cell formation-Haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry-plasma proteins production, classification and properties;
coagulation of blood; Haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants-blood groups-Blood
volume-Plasma expanders-Buffer systems in blood. Biochemical tests and their
significance in disease diagnosis.
1.5.2. Circulation:
Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle-heart sounds, heart beat, electrocardiograms, Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart functionmetabolism
of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical regulation of heart, effect of
temperature and stress on heart, blood pressure and hypertension, Osmotic regulation,
arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary & pulmonary
circulation, Blood-Brain barrier-Cerebrospinal fluid-circulation in birds.
1.5.3 Respiration :
Mechanism of respiration, Transport and exchange of gases-neural
control of respiration-chemo receptors-hypoxia-respiration in birds.
1.5.4 Excretion:
Structure and function of kidney-formation of urine methods of
studying renal function-renal regulation of acid-base balance; physiological
constituents of urine-renal failure-passive venous congestion-Urinary recreation in
chicken-Sweat glands and their function. Biochemical tests for urinary dysfunction.
1.5.5 Endocrine glands :
Functional disorders, their symptoms and diagnosis.
Synthesis of hormones, mechanism and control of secretion-hormonal receptorsclassification
and function.
1.6. General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs :
Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmaco-kinetics-Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte
balance-drugs acting on Autonomic nervous system-Modern concepts of anaesthesia
and dissociative anaesthetics-Autocoids-Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial injections-use of hormones in therapeutics-chemotherapy of
parasitic infections-Drug and economic persons in the Edible tissues of animalschemotherapy
of Neoplastic diseases.
1.7. Veterinary Hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation :
Assessment of pollution of water, air and soil-Importance of climate in animal health-effect of
environment on animal function and performance-relationship between
industrialization and animal agriculture-animal housing requirements for specific
categories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows & sows, milking cows, broiler birdsstress,
strain & productivity in relation to animal habitation.
2. Animal Diseases :
2.1 Pathogenesis, symptoms, postmortem lesions, diagnosis, and control of infection
diseases of cattle, pigs and poultry, horses, sheep and goats.
2.2 Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, pig and
poultry.
2.3 Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds.
2.4 Diagnosis and treatment of nonspecific condition like impaction, Bloat, Diarrhoea,
Indigestion, dehydration, stroke, poisoning.
2.5 Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.
2.6 Principles and methods of immunisation of animals against specific disseases-hard
immunity-disease free zones-'zero' disease concept-chemoprophylaxis.
2.7 Anesthesia-local, regional and general-preanaesthetic medication, Symptoms and
surgical interference in fractures and dislocation, Hernia, choking, abomassal
displacement-Caesarian operations, Rumenotomy-Castrations.
2.8 Disease investigation techniques-Materials for laboratory investigation-
Establishment Animal Health Centres-Disease free zone.
3. Veterinary Public Health
3.1 Zoonoses :
Classification, definition; role of animals and birds in prevalence and
transmission of zoonotic diseases-occupational zoonotic diseases.
3.2. Epidemiology :
Principles, definition of epidemiological terms, application of epidemiological measures in the study of diseases and disease control, Epidemiological
features of air, water and food borne infections.
3.3 Veterinary Jurisprudence :
Rules and Regulations for improvement of animal quality and prevention of animal diseases-state and control Rules for prevention of
animal and animal product borne diseases-S.P. C.A.-veterolegal cases-certificates-
Materials and Methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation.
4. Milk and Milk Products Technology :
4.1 Milk Technology :
Organization of rural milk procurement, collection and transport of raw milk.
Quality, testing and grading raw milk, Quality storage grades of whole milk, Skimmed
milk and cream.
Processing, packaging, storing, distributing, marketing defects and their control and
nutritive properties of the following milks : Pasteurized, standardized, toned, double
toned, sterilized, homogenized, reconstituted, recombined and flavoured milks.
Preparation of cultured milks, cultures and their management, youghurt, Dahi, Lassi
and Srikhand. Preparation of flavoured and sterlized milks. Legal standards, Sanitation
requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant equipment.
4.2 Milk Products Technology :
Selection of raw materials, assembling, production, processing, storing, distributing and marketing milk products such as Butter, Ghee,
Khoa, Channa, Cheese; Condensed, evaporated, dried milk and baby food; Ice cream
and Kulfi; by products; whey products, butter milk, lactose and casein. Testing
Grading, judging milk products-BIS and Agmark specifications, legal standards,
quality control nutritive properties. Packaging, processing and operational control
Costs.
5. Meat Hygiene and Technology :
5.1 Meat Hygiene :
5.1.1 Ante mortem care and management of food animals, stunning, slaughter and
dressing operations; abattoir requirements and designs; Meat inspection procedures and
judgement of carcass meat cuts-drading of carcass meat cuts-duties and functions of
Veterinarians in Wholesome meat production.
5.1.2 Hygienic methods of handling production of meat-spoilage of meat and control
measures-Post slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence
them-quality improvement methods-Adulteration of meat and defection-Regulatory
provisions in Meat trade and Industry.
5.2. Meat Technology
5.2.1 Physical and chemical characteristics of meat-meat emulsions-methods of
preservation of meat-curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat
products; meat products and formulations.
5.3. Byproducts :
Slaughter house by products and their utilisation-Edible and inedible byproducts-social and economic implications of proper utilisation of slaughter house
byproducts-Organ products for food and pharmaceuticals.
5.4. Poultry Products Technology :
Chemical composition and nutritive value of poultry meat, pre slaughter care and management. Slaughtering techniques, inspection,
preservation of poultry meat, and products. Legal and BIS standards. Structure, composition and nutritive value of eggs. Microbial spoilage. Preservation
and maintenance. Marketing of poultry meat, eggs and products.
5.5. Rabbit/Fur Animal farming :
Care and management of rabbit meat production. Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste byproducts. Grading of
wool.
6. Extension :
Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension. Different Methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions. Generation of
technology, its transfer and feedback. Problems of constraints in transfer of technology.
Animal husbandry programmes for rural development.
Recommended Textbooks:
Animal Husbandry - L. Zigman
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