SECTION A (30 marks)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.
- Give four maintenance practices carried out on a knapsack sprayer. (2 marks)
- State four reasons why rabbits are kept by farmers in Kenya. (2 marks)
- State four maintenance practices carried out on a piggery unit. (2 marks)
- Name the four stomach compartments of a ruminant. (2 marks)
- State four causes of stress in poultry. (2 marks)
- Give one reason why the milkman should:
- milk at regular intervals (½ mark)
- avoid milking with wet hands (½mark)
- milk quickly and evenly (½mark)
- practice complete milking (½mark)
- State four factors that determine the amount of feed an animal consumes. (2 marks)
- Give one use of each of the following farm tools:
- pipe wrench (½ mark)
- tenon saw (½ mark)
- spoke shave (½ mark)
- elastrator. (½ mark)
- State four control measures for Brucellosis in cattle. (2 marks)
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- Give two roles of wood shavings used as litter in the artificial brooder. (1 mark)
- Give two reasons why a chicken brooder should have a round shape. (1 mark)
- Name four parts of the ignition system of a petrol engine. (2 marks)
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- State two signs that show a rabbit is about to give birth. (1 mark)
- If a doe was served on 7th March 2021, determine the date it gave birth. (1 mark)
- What is the name given to the young one of a rabbit? (1 mark)
- State four advantages of artificial calf feeding. (2 marks)
- Give four characteristics of clean milk. (2 marks)
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- Name two methods of service used in livestock breeding. (1 mark)
- Name two cattle diseases controlled through Government-imposed quarantine in Kenya. (1 mark)
SECTION B (20 marks)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.
- The diagrams R and S show farm implements.
R.....
S.....- Name the source of power used to operate the farm implement labelled: (1 mark)
- State the means by which the farm implement labelled S is attached to its source of power. (1 mark)
- Give two maintenance practices carried out on the implement labelled R. (2 marks)
- The diagram below shows a parasite commonly observed on sheep.
- Identify the parasite. (1 mark)
- State four harmful effects of the parasite in sheep rearing. (4 marks)
- The diagram below shows a method of incubation in poultry rearing
- Identify the method of incubation shown above. (1 mark)
- State four advantages of the method of incubation shown in Question 18. (4 marks)
- A poultry farmer wants to prepare 200 kilograms of chick mash containing 20% Digestible Crude Protein (DCP). Calculate the amount of maize (10% DCP) and fish meal (60% DCP) the farmer requires to make the chick mash. Use the Pearson's square method and show your working (5 marks)
SECTION C (40 marks)
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided after question 22.
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- Describe calf scours under the following subheadings:
- causal organism. (1 mark)
- predisposing factors. (3 marks)
- control measures. (4 marks)
- Describe the rearing of day-old layer chicks up to the age of eight weeks. (12 marks)
- Describe calf scours under the following subheadings:
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- Describe milk secretion in a dairy cow. (5 marks)
- Describe six factors that are considered when selecting a gilt for breeding. (6 marks)
- Give nine reasons why the battery cage system of rearing is popularly used by large scale poultry farmers. (9 marks)
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- Describe five management practices carried out on a fish pond. (5 marks)
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- Give five reasons for farm mechanisation. (5 marks)
- Describe six symptoms observed on a calf heavily infested with internal parasites. (6 marks)
- Give four routine rearing practices in the handling of livestock. (4 marks)
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