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SHR611S - SUSTAINABLE SMALL RUMINAT HUSBANDRY - 1ST OPP - JUNE 2024 |
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nAmlBIA UnlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF HEALTH,NATURALRESOURCESAND APPLIEDSCIENCES
SCHOOLOF AGRICULTUREAND NATURALRESOURCESSCIENCES
DEPARTMENTOF AGRICULTURALSCIENCESAND AGRIBUSINESS
QUALIFICATIONS:BACHELOROF SCIENCEIN AGRICULTURE
QUALIFICATIONSCODE: 07BAGA
COURSECODE:SRH611S
DATE: JUNE 2024
LEVEL:7
COURSENAME: SUSTAINABLESMALL RUMINANT
HUSBANRY
SESSION:THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER:
MODERATOR:
FIRSTOPPORTUNITYEXAMINATION MEMORANDUM
MRS. LUCIA TUYENI-KELAO KAFIDI
DR. HILMA R. AMWELE
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer all the questions.
2. Write neatly and clearly.
3. Mark all answers clearly with their respective question numbers.
4. All written work MUST be done in blue or black ink.
5. No books, notes and other additional aids are allowed.
PERMISSIBLEMATERIALS
1. Calculator
2. Examination paper
3. Examination script
THIS QUESTION PAPERCONSISTSOF 4 PAGES
(Including This Front Page)
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QUESTION 1
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If bales of fleece wool are marked as follows, what does it mean? Provide all the
necessary information.
1.1 AAM
[2]
1.2 DDM
[2]
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QUESTION 2
2.1 What does NWGA stand for?
[3]
2.1 What are the important price-determining factors when classing the wool. (4]
{7}
QUESTION 3
Demonstrates the understanding on how the following
be dealt with to comply with FANMeat standards.
3.1 Water
3.2 Facilities and Restricted Areas
crucial farm
management issues could
[4]
[4]
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QUESTION 4
Evaluate and analyse the small stock industry in Namibia, regarding the types of marketing.
4.1 Bush Markets
[5]
4.2 Speculators
[5]
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QUESTION 5
5.1 Distinguish between notifiable diseases and contagious diseases?
(4]
5.2 Name six (5) of these notifiable diseases.
[5]
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QUESTION 6
6.1 What does NamLITS stand for?
(4]
6.2 Express your knowledge and understanding by discussing the main roles and functions
of the Meat Board of Namibia.
[8]
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QUESTION 7
7.1 Discuss the general description of the Boer goats.
[8)
7.2 Small livestock play an important role in farmers' livelihood because their turnover is
faster than that of large stock. A Company approached you, as a consultant, to conduct a
feasibility study of the area it wants to establish a Damara sheep farm. What did you
find out? Write a report for both this Company and the Ministry of Environment.
[7)
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QUESTION 8
8.1 A doe consumed 2.50kg of Dry Matter (DM) of feed and excreted 0.50kg of DM.
Calculate the digestibility of such feed.
[5)
8.2 Assume that some of your sheep were serviced on the 24 April 2024. Calculate the
lambing day. Show all steps involved in determining of the lambing day. [6)
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QUESTION 9
A farmer mated 300 Does and 295 of these were scanned pregnant. 295 of these Does kid, 870
kids were born alive, and 850 kids were weaned. Calculate the following reproduction
parameters of this herd of goats.
9.1 Fecundity Rate (Fee):
[3]
9.2 Mortality Rate (MR):
[3)
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QUESTION 10
Mrs. Ndamononghenda is farming with 350 goats on pasture. He realised that pasture is not
enough to sustain the animals throughout the year until the next rain season. Hence, he
decided to buy some hay for supplement, i.e. oats and Lucerne hays. The price for oats hay
costs= N$1200.00/Ton and of Lucerne hay costs= N$1550.00/Ton.
Calculate the costs for both hays (maize and Lucerne) which are required to feed the entire herd
for three months (June to August). The goats need 45kg/day of oats hay and 25kg/day of
Lucerne for the three months/herd.
[8)
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QUESTION 11
Calculate the costs of the feed required to feed three (3) rams for two months (May and June) if
each feed ingredient costs N$4.00 per part. A good ration for working rams must be composed
of the following feed ingredients per day per ram:
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2 of parts yellow mealie meal
5 of parts oatmeal
3 of part wheat bran
0.5 of part fishmeal
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TOTAL:
100 Marks
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