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VETERINARY SCIENCE SYLLABUS POST OF FOREST RANGE OFFICERS

VETERINARY SCIENCE SYLLABUS

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

1. General:  Role  of  Livestock  in  Indian  Economy  and  human  health.    Mixed  farming. 
Agroclimatic  zones  and  livestock  distribution.    Socioeconomic  aspects  of  livestock  enterprise
with special reference to women.

2. Genetics and Breeding: Principle of genetics, chemical nature of DNA and RNA and their
models  and  functions.    Recombinant  DNA  technology, transgenic  animals,  multiple  ovulation
and  embryo transfer.    Cytogenetics,  immunogenetics and  biochemical  polymorphic  and  their
application  in  animal  improvement.    Gene  actions.   Systems  and  strategies  for  improvement. 
Geneaction.    Systems  and  strategies  for  improvement  of  livestock  for  milk,  meat,  wool
production  and  drought  and  poultry  for  eggs  and  meat.    Breeding  of  animals  for  disease
resistance.  Breeds of livestock, poultry and rabbits.

3. Nutrition: 
  Role  of  nutrition  in  animal  health  and  production.    Classification  of  feeds,
Proximate composition of feeds, feeding standards, computation of rations.  Ruminant nutrition. 
Concepts  of  total  digestible  nutrients  and  starch  equivalent  systems.    Significance  of  energy
determinations.    Conservation  of  feeds  and  fodder  and  utilization  of  agro  by products.    Feed
supplements and additives.  Nutrition deficiencies and their management.

4.  Management:  Systems of housing and management of livestock poultry and rabbits.  Farm
record.  Economics of livestock, poultry and rabbit farming. Clean milk production.  Veterinary
hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation.  Sources of water and standards of potable
water.  Purification of water.  Air changes and thermal comfort.  Drainage systems and effluent
disposal Biogas.

5.  Animal Production: (a) Artificial insemination, fertility and sterility.  Reproductive physiology,
semen characteristics and preservation.  Sterility its causes and remedies.  (b) Meat eggs and
wool  production.    Methods  of  slaughter  of  meat  animals,  meat  inspection,  judgment,  carcass
 characteristics,  adulteration  and  its  detection  processing  and  preservation;  Meat  products,
quality  control  and  nutritive  value,  By products.   Physiology  of  egg  production,  nutritive  value,
grading of eggs preservation and marketing.
Types of wool, grading and marketing.

6. Veterinary Science:  (i) Major contagious diseases affecting cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep
and goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits and pet animals Etiology, symptoms, pathogenicity, diagnosis,
treatment  and  control  of  major  bacterial,  viral,  rickettsial  and  parasitic  infections.    (ii) 
Description, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the following:
a)  Production diseases of milk animals, pig and poultry.
b)  Deficiency diseases of domestic livestock and birds
c)  Poisonings due to infected/contaminated foods and feeds, chemicals and drugs.

7. Principles of immunization and vaccination:    Different  types  of  immunity,  antigens  and
antibodies.    Methods  of  immunization.    Break down  of  immunity,  Vaccines  and  their  use  in
animals.
Zoonoses, Foodborne infections and intoxications, occupation hazards.

8.  (a) Poisons used for killing animals euthanasia.
  (b)  Drugs  used  for  increasing  production/performance  efficiency  and  their  adverse
effects.
  (c) Drugs used to tranquilize wild animals as well as animals in captivity.
  (d) Quarantine measures in India and abroad.  Act, Rules and Regulations.

9. Dairy Science:  Physicochemical  and nutritional properties of milk.
Quality  assessment  of  milk  and  milk  products,  Common  tests  and  legal  standards.    Cleaning
and  sanitation  of  dairy  equipment.    Milk  collections,  chilling,  transportation  processing,
packaging,  storage  and  distribution.    Manufacture  of  market  milk,  cream  butter,  cheese,  ice
cream, condensed and dried milk, by products and Indian Milk products.
Unit operations in dairy plant.
Role of micro organisam in quality of milk and products physiology of milk secretion.








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