SECTION A
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided
- Give four reasons why a famer may use a jembe instead of a disc plough
- Name four sheep breeds reared in kenya
- Give four ways in which a famer can restrain a bull in the farm
- Name four stages ticks go through in their life-cycle
- State four factors that determine the amount of water taken by an animal . (2marks)
- Distinguish between each of the following pair of terms as used in livestock production
- selection and breeding (1mark)
- inbreeding and line breeding (1mark)
- State four signs of parturition in goats (2marks)
- Name four materials a farmer requires in order to construct a barbed wire fence . (2marks)
- State four symptomps of coccidiosis infection in chicks . (2marks)
- State four management practices carried out to prevent accurrence of parasites in a poultry house . (2marks)
- Name four components of milk (2marks)
- State four uses odf sollar energy in a farm . (2marks )
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- State the colour difference between the Galla and saanen goat breeds. (1marks)
- Name one goat breed that is reared for
- mohair (1/2 marks)
- meat (1/2 marks)
- State four ways in which proper housing helps to control livestrock diseases (2marks)
- State one use of the following farm tools ;
- pruning hook (1/2marks)
- dosing gun (1/2marks)
- bow saw (1/2marks)
- crowbar (1/2marks)
SECTION B
Answer all the questions in the section in the spaces provided
- A farmer wants to prepare 100kg ration containing 20% DCP from wheat (10%DCP) and sunflower seed cake ( 35%DCP).Using the pearson's square method , calculate the quantity of wheat and sunflower seed cake the farmer requires . (5marks)
- The picture below shows a poultry rearing system .
- Identify the rearing system .
- From the picture , state two ways in which the system can lead to low eggs production. (2marks)
- State two ways in which the rearing system can lead to lose of birds . (2marks)
- The diagram below shows a practical carried out by poultry farmers to determine productivity od layer birds.
- Give one reasion for carrying out the practice in poultry rearing . (1mark)
- Apart from the practice shown above , give two other features on the birds to determine productivity . (2marks)
- From the diagram , which advice shoud be given to the farmer on each of the birds;
Bird E(1mark)
Bird F (1mark)
- Below is a diagram of a livestork parasite.
- Identify the parasite. (1mark)
- Name the intermediate host of the parasite.. (1mark)
- Explain how each of the following practices help to control the parasite ;
- Applying copper sulphate on stagnat water (1mark)
- drenching infested animals with antihelmintics (1mark)
- rotational grazing (1mark)
SECTION C
Answer any two questions from this sections in the spaces provided after question 22.
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- Give five disadvantages of natural incubation in poultry rearing . (5marks)
- Describe five ways of minimising stress in a deep litter poultry rearing system .(5marks)
- Describe ten routine management practices carried out during calf rearing (10marks )
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- Explain five reasons why farmers use animal drawn impliments. (5marks)
- Describe five maintainace practices for the water cooling system of a tractor . (5marks)
- Explain the defference between a spray race and a cattle dip . (10marks)
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- Describe ten routine management practices carried out in the rearing of male calves (10marks)
- Describe anthrax disease under each of the following sub-headings;
- causal organism (1mark)
- symptoms of infection (4marks)
- control measures (5marks )
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