Cambridge IGCSE Agriculture — Livestock Production and Health

Led by Robert Bakewell Simulacrum

Livestock production and health for IGCSE Agriculture — housing, feeding, nutrition, health management, disease spread, parasites and notifiable diseases. Taught by Robert Bakewell Simulacrum.

1. Module 7

   Livestock Production and Health: Housing, Nutrition and Stockmanship

   Led by Robert Bakewell Simulacrum

   The question

   What does a well-managed livestock enterprise look like, from the first day of a young animal's life to the recognition and isolation of a sick one? Robert Bakewell Simulacrum covers the requirements of livestock housing, care of young stock, nutritional requirements (energy, protein, minerals, vitamins, water), maintenance and production rations, and the signs by which health and ill-health are recognised in the herd. The module closes with the routes by which infectious and contagious diseases spread, the problems caused by internal and external parasites, the definition and importance of notifiable diseases, and the hygiene and isolation procedures that contain outbreaks.

   Outcome

   The student can describe livestock housing and young stock care; explain nutritional requirements and maintenance/production rations; and describe signs of health and ill-health, disease spread, parasites and notifiable diseases. (Module 7 — Livestock Production and Health)

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 7.1 Livestock Housing and Young Stock Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   2. ○ 7.2 Nutrition and Feeding Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   3. ○ 7.3 Livestock Health and Disease Management Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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