(a) Explain each of the following terms as used in animal husbandry:
(i) coprophagy: (ii) rumination (iii) candling (iv) tethering.
(b) List four local materials which could be used for constructing a goat house.
(c)(i) Name the three members of the honey bee colony. (ii) State five ways in which honey beekeeping is important.
Explanation
(a) Explanation of Terms:
(i) Coprophagy: Process by which rabbits/animals reingest their soft feaces to recover lost nutrients. It helps the animals to utilize nutrients more efficiently. It is done in the early hours of the day.
(ii) Rumination: It is a process in which swallowed feed is regurgitated, rechewed, resalivated, and reswallowed by ruminants. It ensures that fibrous materials are reduced to smaller sizes for proper digestion. -It is done when the animal's at rest.
(iii) Candling: This is the process by which presumed fertile eggs are placed on a device called candler with a light source below in a dark room to detect the fertility of the egg. - It is done on the 9th and 19th day of incubation/ 14 days.
(iv) Tethering: This is a method of restraining in which an animal is tied to a stake using rope so that the animals' movement is restricted around the radius of the rope. it helps to prevent animals from destroying crop farms.
(b) Local Materials used for Constructing Goat House:
- Raffia/palm frond
- Grass/thatch.
- Plank/sticks/wood.
- Bamboo.
- Plantain/banana leaves.
- Clay/bricks.
- Rope/twine.
(c)(i) Members of Honey Bee Colony:
- Queen
- Drone/king
- Worker
- Brood
(ii) Importance of Honey bee Keeping:
- Production of honey/food/food for man,
- Production of enzymes/invertase.
- Production Serves as a means of employment.
- Sources as foreign exchange.
- Sources of Brood income
- Bee help to pollinate crops.
- Honey is medicinal.
- Educational/research.