Complete WAEC Syllabus for Animal Husbandry 2023, Text Books, and Topics

You must prepare for the exam by studying the Animal Husbandry section of the WAEC syllabus. The format, notes, and goals for the Animal Husbandry test are all included.

The Animal Husbandry syllabus must be studied in order to be prepared for the exam. You can use it as a guide to help you decide which topics to read about. Additionally, there are notes on ideas that you ought to learn carefully.

Exam preparation without reference to the Animal Husbandry syllabus is equivalent to visiting a farm without your farm equipment. You won’t be effective in the end.

Make sure to use the syllabus when you start your exam preparations.

The West African Examination Council’s suggested textbooks and Animal Husbandry course syllabus are included in this post (WAEC).

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WAEC Animal Husbandry

This syllabus has been created to present animal husbandry as a trade for a living, with a focus on the development of knowledge and entrepreneurial abilities.

Candidates will be required to respond to questions on each of the subjects listed in the Syllabus column. The notes within are meant to give an idea of the range of the questions that will be asked, but they shouldn’t be viewed as a complete list of restrictions and examples.

Aims and Objectives

The syllabus will consequently aim to evaluate candidates’ expertise in:

• basic animal production practices such as feeding, housing, pest and disease control;
• efficient and effective management  of animal enterprise;
• efficient processing, preservation, packaging, storage and marketing of animal products;
• basic entrepreneurial skills in animal husbandry related vocations;
• basic knowledge and skills in animal improvement and health.

Requirements

The following groups of farm animals should be raised in at least one school offering animal husbandry:

• monogastrics e.g. poultry, pigs, snails, camel, donkey, horse, rabbit, bee.
• ruminants e.g. cattle, sheep and goat.
  • It is recommended that the schools should have agricultural laboratories.
  • It is also recommended that candidates keep practical notebooks and specimen albums which should contain records of activities undertaken and observations made on the school farm and field trips and of specimens collected.
  • It is also expected that the study would be supplemented by visits to well established livestock and poultry farms, abattoirs, feed mills, animal product-based companies and other institutions related to animal

Examination Scheme

Papers 1, 2, and 3 are the three required papers that must all be taken. Papers 1 and 2 will be taken together as a composite paper in a single sitting.

Paper 1 will include forty multiple-choice questions that must all be done in 40 minutes or less for a total of 40 marks.

Six essay questions from across the entire course will make up PAPER 2. Each question is worth 20 points. Candidates will have two hours to respond to four questions for a total of 80 points.

Paper 3 will be a practical exam for applicants applying to schools and a practical work test for people applying privately. Each version will have four questions, each of which must be answered in full within 1½ hours  to receive 60 points.

WAEC Animal Husbandry Syllabus

Livestock Production

1. Importance of farm animals
2. Classification of farm animals.
   • Classification of farm animals.
   • Identification of ruminants and non-ruminants.
3. Internal organs and their functions in farm animals.
4. Body systems and their functions in farm animals
5. Reproduction in farm animals
   • Definition of terms used in livestock reproduction.
   • Reproduction in livestock(mammals).
   • Reproduction in poultry.
     • Reproductive  hormones and their functions.
     • Management of pregnant  farm animals.
6. Livestock management systems.
7.  Management practices of livestock.

Animal Nutrition

1. Meaning and classes of animal feeds.
2. Animal feeds and feeding
   • Livestock rations
3. Formulation of livestock rations.
4. Processing and marketing of animal products.
   • Processing techniques for different farm animal products.
   • Marketing of animal products.

Pasture and Range Management

1.  Pasture management.
   • Meaning and importance of pasture and forage crops.
   • Types of pasture and forage crops.
   • Terminologies in pasture management.
2. Rangeland improvement.
   • Meaning and characteristics of rangelands.
   • Methods of rangeland improvement.
   • Importance of rangeland.

3. ANIMAL IMPROVEMENT

1. Animal improvement.
   • Meaning of animal improvement.
   • Aims/importance of farm animal improvement.
2. Methods of farm animal improvement.
   • Methods used in farm animal improvement.
   • Merits and demerits of methods used in farm animal improvement.
3. Artificial insemination.
   • Meaning of artificial insemination.
   • Methods of artificial insemination.
   • Advantages  of artificial insemination.

Animal Health

1. Farm animal diseases and pathogens.
   • Concept of farm animal disease.
   • General symptoms of diseases in farm animals.
   • Diseases of farm animals, prevention and control.
   • Factors predisposing farm animals to diseases.

2. Livestock parasites and pests.
   • Livestock parasites.
   • Livestock pests.

Animal Husbandry Practicals

1. Products and by-products of farm animals.
2. Identification of farm animals
3. Internal organs and their functions in farm animals.
   • Tools and equipment used in management of farm animals.
   • Feeds and feedstuffs
   • Pasture and forage crops.
   • Artificial insemination.
   • Pests and parasites of farmanimals.
     • Pests of farm animals.
     • Parasites of farm animals

List of Facilities and Major Equipments

A. FARM BUILDING/STRUCTURE

ITEM NO	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1	Poultry/Pig House/Battery Cages	1
2	Cattle/Goat/Sheep Pen	1
3	Rabbit/Grass cutter Hutch	1
4	Snairy/Bee Hive	1

B. LIVE ANIMALS

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	Poultry/Pig	10
2.	Rabbits/Grass cutter	10
3.	Cattle/Sheep/Goat	10
4.	Snails/Bees	50/100

C. SPECIMEN

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT
1.	Tick
2.	Lice
3.	Liver fluke
4.	Tapeworm
5.	Roundworm
6.	Flea
7.	Tsetse fly
8.	Pests

D. CHARTS AND PICTURES

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	Digestive system of ruminants	5
2.	Digestive system of non-ruminants	5
3.	Reproductive organs of male livestock	5
4.	Reproductive organs of female livestock	5
5.	Reproductive tract of poultry	5
6.	Skeletal system of farm animals	5
7.	Circulatory system	5
8.	Muscular system	5
9.	Endocrine system	5
10.	Calendar of ovulation	5
11.	Calendar of Oestrus cycle	5
12.	Classes of farm animals	5
13.	Calendar of heat period	5
14.	Calendar of animal diseases	5

E. MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	Buddizor pliers/castrators	2
2.	Elastrators	2
3.	Debeakers	2
4.	Candlers	2
5.	Dehorning saw	4
6.	Ear notching knife	2
7.	Electro-ejaculator	2
8.	Artificial Inseminators	2
9.	Hand sprayer/Knapsack sprayer	2
10.	Refrigerators to store materials	2
11.	Clinical thermometer	2
12.	Films	Many
13.	Television	2
14.	CD Video Player	2
15.	16mm Film Projector	2

F.    DRUGS/VACCINES/MATERIALS

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	First aids kits/boxes containing surgical blades, cotton wool, iodine and razor.	2
2.	Sterilizers e.g. Dettol, Izal	4
3.	Syringes and Needles	10
4.	Vaccines (various forms)	5
5.	Formalin, etc.	2 bottles

G. FEED SAMPLES

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	Bone meal	½ kg
2.	Blood meal	½ kg
3.	Fish meal	½ kg
4.	Groundnut cake	½ kg
5.	Maize grains	½ kg
6.	Groundnut  meal	½ kg
7.	Coconut meal	½ kg
8.	Egg shell meal	½ kg
9.	Palm kernel meal	½ kg
10.	Periwinkle shell	½ kg
11.	Mineral salt lick, etc.	½ kg

H. OTHER MATERIALS

ITEM NO.	EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY REQUIRED
1.	Feeding trough (Metal and Plastic)	5
2.	Drinkers (Metal and Plastic)	5
3.	Lanterns (source of heat)	5
4.	Foot dips	5
5.	Notebooks for Accounts and Records	5
6.	Wheelbarrow	5