The process of stopping a young animal from milk and placing it under hand feeding is
- A. culling
- B. breeding
- C. weaning
- D. isolation
Management practices in a piggery include the following except
- A. disinfecting pens
- B. regular cleaning of feed and water troughs
- C. isolating sick animals
- D. weekly vaccination of pigs
Which of the following factors usually affects the colour of egg yolk?
- A. age of the laying hen
- B. type of housing
- C. type of feed
- D. colour of the cock
The mating of a white fulani bull and an N’dama cow could be termed?
- A. Inbreeding
- B. Line breeding
- C. Outbreeding
- D. Cross breeding
The act of giving birth in farm animals is called
- A. brooding
- B. cloning
- C. parturtion
- D. gestation
Which of the following is not a sign of heat in farm animals?
- A. loss of appetite
- B. restlessness
- C. udder enlargement
- D. grunting
Spermatozoa are produced in the
- A. penis
- B. testicles
- C. prostate grand
- D. cowper's gland
Animal which chew the cud are
- A. amphibians
- B. aves
- C. ruminants
- D. reptiles
Birds temporarily store their food in the
- A. crop
- B. gizzard
- C. proventriculus
- D. duodenum
The most active agent of physical weathering in arid regions is
- A. wind
- B. water
- C. temperature
- D. ice
Plant breeders aim at obtaining the following except
- A. tolerance to climatic extremes
- B. resistance to pests
- C. adaptation of pollination
- D. uniformity in the time of maturity
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good pasture?
- A. high quality grass
- B. provision of balance nutrients
- C. ability to withstand trampling
- D. high stem to leaf ratio
Pasture crops are best used in preparing hay
- A. when they are two weeks old
- B. just before flowering
- C. just after seed maturation
- D. after they have started to dry up
Andropogon gayanus is commonly called
- A. guinea grass
- B. elephant grass
- C. gamba grass
- D. spear grass
Maize is a very important crop because apart from serving as a staple, it
- A. is ploughed into the soil to increase fertility
- B. can be processes into corn flakes
- C. forms the base of most livestock feeds
- D. is used for producing germ oil
Leguminous cover crops do not
- A. bind the soil particles together through their roots
- B. increase the nitrogen content of soils
- C. aid in improving the soil organic matter content
- D. reduce the soil microbial population
Improvement of yam through breeding is difficult because
- A. it possesses no sexual reproductive system
- B. naturally growing types have to be used
- C. its rapid multiplication is very difficult
- D. its genes do not segregate
Smut disease of cereals is caused by a
- A. bacterium
- B. fungus
- C. protozoan
- D. nematode
The most common grazing system in West Africa is
- A. continuous grazing
- B. rotational grazing
- C. deferred grazing
- D. zero grazing
The national tree-planting campaign is aimed at stimulating
- A. wildlife conservation
- B. afforestation
- C. taungya farming
- D. forest reservation
The scientific name for guinea grass is
- A. panicum maximum
- B. imperata cylindrica
- C. cynodon dactylon
- D. andropogon gayanus