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Area of Concentration for Animal Husbandry WAEC 2024

• Defining terms related to animal health.
• Identifying signs of good and ill-health in animals.
• Understanding factors that make animals susceptible to diseases.
• Assessing the effects of diseases, pests, and parasites on animal production.
• Learning about zoonotic diseases and their prevention.
• Exploring pathogens of farm animal diseases.
• Dealing with ectoparasites and endoparasites.
• Preventing and controlling parasites.
• Recognizing the economic importance of parasites.

• Understanding the meaning, scope, and importance of animal husbandry.
• Identifying problems in animal production.
• Ensuring the quality and safety standards of animal food products.
• Classifying farm animals.

• Introduction to animal nutrition and its importance.
• Exploring different modes of feeding.
• Understanding feedstuffs, feed supplements, and their classification.
• Learning how to formulate and prepare animal feeds.
• Handling and storing animal feeds.
• Record-keeping and estimating the cost of prepared feed.
• Dealing with pests of stored feed.

• Understanding the internal and external environment of animals.
• Recognizing the role of the nervous and endocrine systems in animal responses to stimuli.
• Determining temperature and respiration rate in farm animals.
• Assessing the effects of climate on farm animals.
• Modifying animal environments to reduce stress.

• Learning the basics of animal anatomy and physiology.
• Exploring the digestive system and its functions.
• Understanding the central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and the endocrine system.
• Examining the integumentary, skeletal, and muscular systems.
• Studying the reproductive system of poultry and livestock.
• Understanding the circulatory system and respiratory system.
• Learning about the excretory system.

• Understanding heredity, basic genetic terms, and Mendel’s first law of inheritance.
• Recognizing the meaning, objectives, and benefits of animal improvement.
• Identifying performance traits in animals.
• Exploring methods of animal improvement.
• Considering nutritional and environmental factors affecting animal improvement.
• Learning about artificial insemination.

• Poultry production, including definitions, classes, breeds, and systems.
• Pig production, types, breeds, systems, and management.
• Domestic pets, their management, training, and marketing.

• Sheep and goat production, including breeds, management, and processing.
• Beef cattle production, breeds, systems, and management.
• Dairy cattle production, breeds, management, and processing.

• Rabbit and grasscutter production, breeds, importance, and management.
• Snail farming, meaning, species, site selection, and management.
• Establishing enterprises in animal husbandry.

• Introduction to range and pastures, their types, importance, and forage crops.
• Pasture establishment and management.
• Forage conservation and utilization.