Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science Syllabus

General: Role of livestock and their products in Indian economy and human health; livestock farming systems; economics of dairy, sheep, goat, poultry, pig and rabbit farming; livestock development programs-objectives and achievements; national and international agencies in livestock development programs, their contribution; constraints to the livestock development programs.

Livestock Management: Livestock and poultry breeds and breed characters; housing systems, and requirements 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.

Livestock Nutrition: Role of nutrition in health and production; classification and composition of feeds and fodders including forest grasses; anti-nutritional factors and toxins in feeds and fodders; feeding standards and nutrient requirements of different categories of livestock and computation of rations.

Nutritional deficiency and its influence on livestock performance; feed supplements and additives; conservation and preservation of feeds and fodders; economic utilization of agro by-products for feeding livestock.

Livestock Breeding and Genetics: Breeding livestock for high performance and disease resistance; principles of genetics; nature of DNA and RNA-their models and functions; applications of recombinant DNA technology, cloning and role of gene actions and cytogenetics.

Veterinary Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry: Comparative gross and microscopic anatomy of different species of livestock. General functions of various body systems, physio-chemical laws as operative for vital physiological phenomena; biochemistry of cellular and sub-cellular components, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins and minerals.

Veterinary Microbiology, Pathology, Parasitology and Pharmacology: 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 wild; zoo and laboratory animals and birds.

Immune system organs, tissues and cells; infection and immunity, serological reactions and modern diagnostic techniques.

Parasites 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.

Veterinary Epidemiology, Medicine and Public Health: Environmental hygiene; role of veterinarian in public health; zoonoses including food-borne diseases: concept, scope, objectives and uses of epidemiology.

Infections including major contagious diseases and noninfectious diseases affecting livestock, birds and wild animals aetiology, clinical examination symptoms, pathogenesity, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, treatment and control, establishment of Animal Healthcare Centres.

General knowledge of pharmacology, therapeutics and chemotherapy. Toxicity and environmental pollutants.

Veterinary Gynecology and Obstetrics: Reproductive physiology; hormones and reproduction; livestock fertility; artificial insemination; semen characteristics of different species of livestock and cryo-preservation. Multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology in livestock. Reproductive disorders and their management.

Veterinary Surgery and Radiology: General surgical principles. Pre and post-operative considerations, anesthesia, asepsis and anti-sepsis and sterilization; scope, history and development of veterinary radiology; radiographic pathology of different parts of body.

Livestock Products Technology: Abattoir practices, methods of slaughtering and dressing; Meat Inspection Laws, utilization of byproducts; 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.