COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION (MAIN)
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCES


1. Answer any ten of the following questions 4xl0=40

What is probiotics? Mention the characteristics of good probiotics.


Differentiate among the nutritive values of pasteurized, standardized and homogenized milk.


Why are piglets more susceptible to anaemia?


What are the points to be kept in mind while collecting and transporting raw milk from rural India?


Write a note on physiological adaptation of animals in high altitude.


What is calving index?


What are the advantages and limitations of artificial insemination in pig?


What managerial practices could be followed to control heat stress in livestock?


Reduced floor and feeding space affect poultry production. Explain.


Define energy-protein ratio and mention its importance in poultry.


What are BIS specifications for chick starter, grower and layer in terms of CP, ME and CF?


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2. Answer any eight of the following questions 5x8=40

Write, in brief, the morphological abnormalities of spermatozoa.


What is NPN compound? Discuss various of incorporation of . urea in ruminant's ration.


What are the advantages and disadvantages of cage system of rearing birds?
Discuss different factors affecting the postnatal growth of animals.
What is the interrelationship among vitamin calcium and
phosphorus?
What is homogenized milk? Mention the advantages and

disadvantages of homogenization of milk.

Write a note on adaptation of goat from the standpoint of land use and economy.


What do you understand by and milk?


What will be the feeding strategies of livestock during flood?


3. Answer any five of the following questions 8x5=40
Describe, in brief, the production and metabolism of volatile fatty acids as source of energy in ruminants.
What are the components for of cost of milk production? Discuss them in detail.

How does the dairy farming In India differ from the developed countries?


What is bypass protein technology? Mention the merits of feeding bypass protein to ruminants.


What is synchronization of estrus? Briefly describe the concept of MOET.


Describe, In brief, the care and management of dairy calf up to 3 months of age.


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4. Answer any four of the following questions 10x4=40

Describe, in brief, the advantages and disadvantages of open-grazing and stall-fed dairy cows.


Describe the new concept to determine the requirement of protein in ruminants.


Discuss the role of different hormones involved in growth.


Discuss the pertinent points which need to be considered for feeding of pig during­


growing-fmishing stage;


lactation period.




Describe the process of spermatogenesis in bovine.


5. Answer any two of the following questions 20x2=40

Discuss, in detail, different methods to improve the nutritive values of poor quality roughages for ruminants' feeding.


Discuss the prin...iple of deep freezing of semen and describe the stepwise procedure of deep freezing of semen.


Compare between dairying under mixed farming and dairying under specialized farming. Which one of these best suited to an average Indian farmers and why?


6. Answer any four of the following questions 10x4=4o.

Discuss different factors affecting the yield and composition of milk.


Compute a ration for a cow weighing 400 kg and yielding 10 litre of milk having fat with the commonly available feed ingredients.


Hormones play important role for optimum reproductive performance of dairy cow. Explain.


What is herd recording? How to maintain herd record in dairy farm?



What are the measures of food energy? Compare the usefulness of TDN and ME systems as measure offeed energy in Indian context.
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7. Answer any five of the following questions 8xS=40
What is challenged feeding and why is it important in dairy cows?
Define feeding standard. Discuss, in brief, the Indian feeding standard along with their merits and demerits.
Write a note on the pricing policy in respect of milk.
What do you understand by pasteurization of milk? Briefly outline the stages in pasteurization of milk.
What is calf starter? Give the ingredient composition of calf starter ration.
Draw and label the diagram of the female a cow. reproductive organs of

8. Answer any four of the following questions lOx4=40

Compare and contrast silage with hay. What are the characteristics of good silage? Discuss, in brief, the chemical changes during ensiling.


Describe the male reproductive organs of a bull giving names and functions of different organs.


What do you mean by protein quality? Write, in brief, different methods for determination of protein quality in nonruminants.


Enlist various causes of anestrus in bovines and discuss their remedial measures.


What do you mean by clean milk? How can you produce clean milk in a farm?


9. Answer any eight of the following questions Sx8=40

What is growth curve of animal? Explain with suitable diagram.


How is microbial protein synthesized in rumen?


What does the seminal fluid contain?


What is the interrelationship between vitamin E and selenium?


What are the physiological responses to heat in domestic animals?


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Write a note on milk 'let down' and 'holding up'.
What is the role of uterus during pregnancy?
Write the constraints in utilization of unconventional feed stuffs in the
ration of livestock and poultry.
What managerial practices could be followed for successful rearing of
piglets?

10. Answer any five of the following questions

Write a note on impact of dairy cooperatives on milk production in rural areas in India.


Summarize the role of B vitamins as coenzymes or prosthetic group of enzymes in animal body.


Discuss, in brief, different factors affecting the survival of spermatozoa after collection.


What are the points to be kept in mind to produce clean milk in a dairy farm?


Dairy bull is considered as half of the herd. Explain in detail.


What is feed auJitive? Write, in brief, the mode of action and limitation of the use of antibiotic as growth promoter in poultry and swine.



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