(ANIMAL
HUSBANDRY & VETERINARY SCIENCE)
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
1. GENERAL:-
Current Livestock Development programmes and polices
of State and Nation - Legislation for control of animal
diseases - Legal duties of Veterinarian - Common offences
against animals and laws governing import and export
of animals.
2. ANIMAL BREEDING
AND GENETICS:-
Important breeds of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig
and poultry with special reference to economic characters.
Animal breeding - Aids to selection, methods of selection
and culling - current breeding policies and programmes
in state and the Nation - Breeding methods - different
mating systems. Hady weinberg law, Effects of selection,
migration, and mutation - Gene frequency. Wild life
breeding in captivity - Economic traits, Collection,
evaluation and preservation of semen.
3. ANIMAL NUTRITION:-
Nutritional terms and definitions - Proximate composition
of feeds - digestion and metabolism of nutrients in
ruminants and non-ruminants. Importance of minerals
and Vitamins in ruminants & non ruminants - classification
of feeds and fodders - storage and conservation of feeds
and fodders - feeding standards - formulation of rations
and feeding of dairy cattle and buffaloes - Utilisation
of unconventional feeds animal by - products - wild
life nutrition. Use of feed additives, antibiotics and
hormones. Antinutritional factors and methods of removing
them.
4. LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
AND MANAGEMENT:-
Common terms used in Animal Husbandry - Identification,
Dentition and Age of animals - Watering livestock -
Removal and disposal of manure and other animal waste
- Effect of environment on the health and productivity
of livestock and measures to counteract it - Different
systems of housing, Housing standards for various livestock
- Hatchery management - Different systems of poultry
management - sexing and brooding of chicks - common
symptoms of diseases and control measures - Farm record
maintenance - Judging of cattle.
5. LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
TECHNOLOGY (DAIRY SCIENCE)
Composition of milk and milk products, clean milk production,
processing, storage and transportation. Preparation
of milk powder, cream, butter, ice cream, cheese and
ghee. Role of milk and milk products in human nutrition,
Detection of adulterants in milk.
6. LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
TECHNOLOGY (MEAT SCIENCE)
Ante mortem and post mortem inspection, - objectives
of meat inspection - methods of slaughter - Various
techniques of preservation & packaging of meat and
meat products - preservation of eggs. Utilization of
slaughter house by-products, role of meat and egg in
human nutrition.
7. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
EXTENSION:-
Principles of extension education - Extension teaching
methods, Audio visual aids - Characteristics of rural
& urban societies. Adopter categories and fators
influencing adoption of technologies, Panchayat Raj.
Selection and training of leaders.
8. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
ECONOMICS:-
Role of animals in the economy of livestock owners.
Statistics of animal and poultry - State wise and nation.
Milk and sheep co-operatives - Marketing of livestock
and its products. Preparation of feasibility reports
and projects (Economics of a dairy unit, poultry, piggery,
sheep & goat units). Per capita availability and
consumption of milk, meat and egg.
PAPER -II
ANIMAL HEALTH
1. VETERINARY ANATOMY:-
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.
2. PHYSIOLOGY:-
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, blood
groups in animals, cardiac cycle, Blood circulation,
Blood pressure, renal function. Hormonal control of
Lactogenesis.
3. SURGERY &
RADIOLOGY:-
General surgical principles. Asepsis and Antisepsis
- sutures and suturing methods - Pre medication and
Anaesthesia (Local Regional and General) - Common surgical
affections and operative procedures (Wound, Fracture,
and dislocation) - cosmetic surgical operations - Radiographic
techniques - pre operative and post operative care of
animals - Intensive care - physiotherapy - Diathermy
- Surgical Emergencies.
4. GYNAECOLOGY &
OBSTETRICS:-
Role of hormones in various phases of reproduction in
female & male - symptoms of estrus and estrous cycle
- Embryo Transfer Technology - Fertility and infertility
in female & male, diagnosis and treatment - pregnancy
diagnosis - Diseases and accidents during gestation,
Abortion - causes and treatment, Stages of parturition
in domestic animals - Types of dystocia, handling, diagnosis
and treatment, post partum diseases, and complications.
5. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
& ZOONOSIS:-
Important diseases caused by bacteria, virus Haemoprotozoans
and other parasites - Laboratory Diagnosis, prevention
and control of common contagious diseases.
Classification of Zoonosis - mode of transmission of
Zoonotic diseases - methods of prevention, control and
eradication of important zoonotic diseases.
6. PATHOLOGY:-
General Pathology: Causes of diseases - Neoplasm - disturbances
of cell metabolism and growth.
Systemic Pathology: Cardio vascular, respiratory, digestive,
genital, nervous and skin. Pathology of important diseases
caused by bacteria, virus, fungi, helminths and protozoa.
Clinical Pathology: Examination of clinical materials,
post mortem techniques, medico - legal implications
- Collection and despatch of materials.
7. MICROBIOLOGY:-
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: Type and grade of immunity - Various tests
used to detect antibody level - Vaccines.
8. PARASITOLOGY:-
Classification of parasites - General life cycle, pathogenesis,
diagnosis and control of Cestodes, Nematodes, Trematodes
and Protozoa in animals and birds.
9. CLINICAL MEDICINE
& THERAPEUTICS:-
General and special clinical examinations, diagnostic
equipments. Etiology, clinical symptoms, pathogenesis,
diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of metabolic
diseases. Deficiency diseases - minerals and vitamins
- Fluid therapy, intensive care.
10. PHARMACOLOGY
& TOXICOLOGY:-
Drug action - Pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution,
biotransformation and excretion), Pharmacodynamics -
local and general anaesthetics. Antibiotics and chemotheraphy
- Toxicology.
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