Course Number: AG140
Course Title: Principles of Animal Production

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

Students will be introduced to the basic principles in animal production and be able to identify problems in livestock production in the tropics.

Specific

Students should be able to:

 1. Identify and describe breeds of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats
 2. Demonstrate the ability to select breeding stock by using performance records, visual evaluation, and other tools used in selecting livestock.
 3. Demonstrate husbandry abilities such as castrating, dehorning, medicating, palpating, ear tattooing, and tagging.
 4. Demonstrate the ability to calculate performance data
 5. List the major diseases of livestock and explain the methods of disease control.
 6. Discuss the environmental impact of livestock production and ways of controlling all types of livestock pollution.
 7. Explain the importance of livestock to our economy.
 8. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of genetics.
 9. Compare and contrast the two types of animal cell division.
10. Define and diagram the six fundamental types of mating.
11. Illustrate the effects of genetic changes through selection,
12. Describe the hormonal system as it relates to reproduction.
13. Explain the reproductive cycle.