Which of the following classes of nutrients is used mainly for energy production in farm animals?
- A. carbohydrates
- B. proteins
- C. vitamins
- D. minerals
Artificial colostrum can be prepared from mixing all the following materials except
- A. groundnut oil
- B. antibiotics
- C. milk
- D. egg
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
Sexing in animal production is the process of
- A. separating the young from the old animals
- B. identifying different brees of animals
- C. breeding of emale and male animals
- D. separating the male from the female
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 cat 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
Birds temporarily store their food in the
- A. crop
- B. gizzard
- C. proventriculus
- D. duodenum
Animal which chew the cud are
- A. amphibians
- B. aves
- C. ruminants
- D. reptiles
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
The most common weed of pasture in West Africa is
- A. ageratum conyzoides
- B. tridax procumbens
- C. imperata cylindrica
- D. boerhavia diffusa
Weevils can be controlled by
- A. providing adequate vantilation in soils
- B. storing dry grain in air-tight containers
- C. heating the store before storing grains
- D. placing cribs under shade
The variety if maize which is less susceptible to weevil attack is
- A. yellow maize
- B. flint maize
- C. floury maize
- D. sweet maize
Moths,aphids and mealy bugs cause damage to crops by their
- A. piercing and sucking activities
- B. piercing and chewing activities
- C. chewing and biting activities
- D. boring and chewing activities
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 terr-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