Note :-

1. Duration of Paper: 3 Hours
2. All Questions carry equal marks.
3. Medium of Competitive Exam: Bilingual in English & Hindi
4. There will be Negative Marking.
5. Objective type paper .

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Syllabus : Agriculture Livestock -II

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Unit 1: Production and Management of Farm Animals

1. Production trends and factors affecting cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pigs, equine, camel, and rabbit.
2. Identification, handling, and restraining of farm animals.
3. Prenatal and postnatal care and management of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pigs, equine, camel, and rabbit.
4. Care of neonates and young calves.
5. Management strategies for reducing mortality in farm animals.
6. Management to improve productive and reproductive efficiency in cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pigs, equine, camel, and rabbit.
7. Concept of feed conversion efficiency for growth and production.
8. Water requirement of farm animals.
9. Herd registration and its importance.

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Unit 2: Production and Management of Poultry

1. Brooding of chicks.
2. Management of growing, laying, and breeding flocks.
3. Shelter management.
4. Biosecurity and environmental considerations.
5. Cage layer management and well-being of poultry.
6. Light management in poultry sheds.
7. Hatchery business management.
8. Management during stress.
9. Chick sexing.
10. Maintenance of poultry farm records.
11. Health and sanitation problems.
12. Prevention and disease control.
13. Poultry shows.
14. Handling and care of table eggs and processing of birds for meat.

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Unit 3: Wildlife Management

1. Status of wildlife in India and its conservation.
2. Biological and ecological basis of management of wildlife.
3. Breeding and feeding of wildlife in captivity.
4. Health management.

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Unit 4: Forage Production and Conservation

1. Classification of feeds and forages.
2. Feed and fodder resources used for feeding livestock and poultry.
3. Nutritive value of feeds and fodders.
4. Conservation and preservation of feeds and fodders.
5. Annual and perennial fodder crops.
6. Strategies for round-the-year fodder production.
7. Pasture development and management.

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Unit 5: Economics and Marketing of Livestock and Poultry and their Products

1. Economic principles applied to livestock and poultry production.
2. Production functions.
3. Farm size, resources, and product combinations.
4. Cost concepts.
5. Effect criteria in the use of resources in livestock production.
6. Maintenance and evaluation of different production records.
7. Insurance and financing of livestock enterprises.
8. Project formulation for setting up livestock and poultry farms.
9. Different approaches to marketing livestock and poultry products.
10. Present status of cattle fairs and methods of selling livestock in India and Rajasthan.
11. Market news and information.
12. Determination of prices of livestock and poultry products.
13. Vertical integration in livestock product industries.