Syllabus content and objectives
Official WAEC Animal Husbandry (Alt B) outline · Section E: Animal Health
Content
a. Livestock parasites
Objective
Candidates should understand the meaning, classes, control/prevention and effects of parasites, including life cycles, and identify ecto-parasites (ticks, lice, mites, fleas etc.) and endo-parasites (tapeworm, roundworm, hookworm, pinworm, liver fluke, trypanosome etc.) and their economic importance
Content
b. Livestock pests
Objective
Candidates should know livestock pests (rodents, snakes, soldier ants, birds, weevils, termites, flies etc.), prevention/control using dewormers, acaricides, pesticides and ethno-veterinary practices, effects of pests on farm animals, and identify and know the economic importance of storage pests (rodents, weevils, termites, cockroaches) and field pests (soldier ants, birds, snakes, flies)
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