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SRH611S- SUSTAINABLE SMALL RUMINANT HUSBANDRY - 2NDt Opp - JULY 2022 |
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nAmI BIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE AnD TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF HEALTH,APPLIEDSCIENCESAND NATURAL RESOURCES
Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences
QUALIFICATIONS: BACHELOR OF SCIENCEIN AGRICULTURE
QUALIFICATIONSCODE: 07BAGA
COURSECODE: SRH611S
DATE: JULY 2022
LEVEL: NQF LEVEL6
COURSENAME: SUSTAINABLE SMALL RUMINANT
HUSBANDRY
SESSION: JULY
MARKS: 120
EXAMINER:
MODERATOR:
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
MRS. LUCIA TUYENI-KELAO KAFIDI
DR. HIMA R. AMWELE
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer all questions
2. Type clearly and neatly
3. Number the answers clearly
4. Report all your answers to the correct significant figures
PERMISSIBLEMATERIALS
1. Calculator
2. Examination paper
3. Examination script
THIS QUESTION PAPERCONSISTSOF 3 PAGES(Excluding this front page)
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QUESTION 1
1.1 Explain the important purposes of FANMeat Scheme to the livestock producers. [3]
1.2 Livestock farming can have various impacts on the environment. Demonstrates the
understanding on how predators could be dealt in order to comply with FANMeat
standards.
[5]
QUESTION 2
2.1 Define the five types of nutrients that are important for livestock and for each type
of nutrient provide any two of its sources.
[10]
2.2 Explain the step by step method of how to make silage. Select a specific plant species
as an example. Also indicate how you would determine when it is ready for feeding or
baling.
[6]
QUESTION 3
Evaluate and analyse the small stock industry in Namibia, regarding the following types of
marketing.
3.1 Auctions
[5]
3.2 Permit Days
[5]
QUESTION 4
Demonstrates the understanding on how the following crucial farm management issues
could be dealt with in order to comply with FANMeat standards.
4.1 Water
[3]
4.2 Facilities and Restricted Areas
[3]
4.3 Pasture and Feed
[5]
QUESTIONS
5.1 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]
5.2 Assume that some of your goats were serviced on the 25 November 2016. Calculate
the expected kidding day. Write it in record sheet.
[10]
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QUESTION 6
Expressyour knowledge and understanding by discussing the recommended supplements
for the following production livestock.
6.1 Lactating doe
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6.2 Lambs
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QUESTION 7
7.1 Explain the figure below with regard to nutrition requirements in the livestock
production processes.
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7.2 Livestock farmers have a legal and moral responsibility for the welfare of their
animals. Validates your comprehension by explaining how animals should be
managed according to the rules and regulations of Animal Welfare in terms of
marking of animals.
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QUESTION 8
Explain what the following reproductive tract organs are and their importance thereafter.
8.1 Testes
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8.2 Scrotum
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8.3 Cervix
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8.4 Thermo regulation
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QUESTION 9
9.1 A producer mated 500 ewes and 485 of these were scanned pregnant. 480 of these
ewes lambed, 750 lambs were born alive and 745 lambs were weaned.
Calculate the Mortality Rate (MR) of this herd of sheep.
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9.2 Mr. Ndemupandula is farming with 250 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 Maize 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 35kg/day of oats hay
and 20kg/day of Lucerne for those three months/herd.
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TOTALMARKS:
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