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Unit Code: ASH400

Unit Name: Animal Housing Systems & Infrastructure

Description: The syllabus covers introduction to livestock housing and infrastructures, livestock housing and infrastructures, animal environmental requirements, the effect of climatic factors on livestock performance, the cattle housing and infrastructure in the tropics, construction of yards, housing for cow's herds, milking and milk handling facilities, dairies for a medium-size herd, milking parlour for a medium-size herd, cattle yards infrastructure, infrastructure requirements for sheep and goat flocks, general requirements for pig housing, the general housing requirements for chickens.

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Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: Student must be enrolled in the programme.

Credit Point: 12

Offered In: Semester 1