Tools and equipment used in management of farm animals

Objective

Candidates should be able to identify tools and equipment for: housing (head pan, trowel, shovel/spade, hammer, pincers, pliers, spanner, screw driver); brooding (coal pots, kerosene stoves, hurricane lantern, electric bulb, hover, chick feeder, flat trays, chick drinker, brood guard/surround, thermometer, hygrometer); feeding (feeders, drinkers, weighing scale); identification (branding iron, ear clips, neck chains, marker, ear notcher, indelible ink); debeaking (debeaking machine, sharp knife, heater); castration (surgical blade/scalpel, burdizzo, elastrator, elastic ring, cotton wool, suture needle, suture thread); handling (kraal, restraining ropes, wooden rod, nose ring); dehorning (iron saw, knife/cutlass); incubation (incubator, hatcher, chick box, egg tray, humidifier, candler); milking (cheese cloth, milking machine, milking chute, milk testing cup, drenching bottle, milking pails, buckets); slaughtering (cutlass, knife, stunning gun, electric shocker, defeathering machine, eviscerator, conveyor, weighing scale, blast freezer, cold rooms); pasture and forage crops (sickle, knife/cutlass, harvesters, silo); and discuss their maintenance