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Part 1 Basic principles: the effect of climate maintenance of health - preventive medicine and the role of epidemiology, types of production loss due to ill health, the causes, nature and control of disease, disease caused by worms - arthropods and disease nutrition and feeding - food components, evaluation of food, types of feed available reproduction and breeding - the reproductive cycle, the basis of inheritance, breeding livestock for tropical environments. Part 2 Husbandry: cattle - numbers, distribution, types of tropical cattle, production systems in the tropics, the planning and development of beef enterprises, the planning and equipping of dairy farms, estimation of body and carcase weight, dentition of cattle as an indication of age buffalo - origin, distribution, breeds and breeding, adaptability, growth, nutrition, production, common diseases of buffalo sheep - origin, numbers and distribution, breeds, reproductive behaviour, feeding and management, diseases and parasites, productivity goats - origin and classification, population and distribution, breeds and breeding, systems of management, rearing, feeding, diseases and parasites, potential production camels - origin, numberss and distriubtion, breeds, some anatomical and physiological characteristics, reproductive behaviour, feeds and feeding, health, management, productivity llamoids of new world camelidae - llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuna - origin, numbers and distribution, reproductive behaviour, nutritional characteristics, management, disease, productivity the donkeys - origin, numbers and distribution, morphology and anatomy, physiology of adaptation, reprodution and breeding, types and breeds, nutrition and feeding, diseases and parasites, management game animals - reasons for preservation of wild game, tropical regions where game could be an economic asset, methods of using wild game for meat production, wild game products, pigs - the worldwide distribution of pigs, origin of domestic pigs, major breeds used in the tropics, selection of breeding pigs, reproductive behaviour, feeds and feeding, health and management, domesticated birds - domestic fowl, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl, Japanese quail, guinea fowl, ostrich, pigeons, marketing of poultry. Part 3 Animal products: milk and milk products - production and consumption, the role of milk in improving nutrition, milk composition and properties, quality, organizing milk collection and sales, milk processing, tropical milk products meat and carcass by-products - animal growth, ante mortem management and inspection, slaughtering and carcass, dressing, meat hygiene, by-products animal fibres - typtes, histology and physiology, harvesting and classification, problems with fibre production.