Beef Cattle Production

Akopọ

Drive out of any northern Nigerian town at dawn and you will meet them: long lines of cattle moving behind a herdsman, dust rising off the road as the animals head to whatever pasture the season has left standing. That single picture is Nigeria's beef industry in miniature, still built mainly on herding rather than on the fenced ranches and feedlots that supply beef in many other countries. Cattle move because the grass does not stay put and because a wide belt of the country remains too infested with tsetse fly for a Zebu-type animal to survive.

In this lesson you will meet the three breeds behind Nigerian beef, White Fulani, Sokoto Gudali and Muturu, and see how each breed's build fits the land it is kept on. You will compare the extensive, ranching and feedlot systems that turn a growing animal into marketable beef, work through the management and cost calculations examiners set on this topic, and learn the factors, disease chief among them, that hold Nigerian beef production back from its full potential.

Awọn Afojusun

  1. State the common breeds of beef cattle reared in Nigeria
  2. Explain the systems of beef cattle production
  3. Explain the management practices in beef cattle production
  4. Explain the factors affecting beef production in Nigeria
  5. State the economic importance of beef cattle production

Akọ̀wé Ẹ̀kọ́

Beef is the most widely eaten red meat in Nigeria, and almost all of it still begins life on communal grazing land rather than a fenced farm. A WAEC candidate who can only recite "cattle give beef" misses the syllabus entirely. The real content is the chain that gets an animal from a calf on open range to a carcass in a market stall: which breed is used, which system rears it, how it is managed along the way, and which obstacles, mainly disease and land pressure, decide whether that chain runs smoothly or breaks down.

Ìdánwò Ẹ̀kọ́

Oriire fun ipari ẹkọ lori Beef Cattle Production. Ni bayi ti o ti ṣawari naa awọn imọran bọtini ati awọn imọran, o to akoko lati fi imọ rẹ si idanwo. Ẹka yii nfunni ni ọpọlọpọ awọn adaṣe awọn ibeere ti a ṣe lati fun oye rẹ lokun ati ṣe iranlọwọ fun ọ lati ṣe iwọn oye ohun elo naa.

Iwọ yoo pade adalu awọn iru ibeere, pẹlu awọn ibeere olumulo pupọ, awọn ibeere idahun kukuru, ati awọn ibeere iwe kikọ. Gbogbo ibeere kọọkan ni a ṣe pẹlu iṣaro lati ṣe ayẹwo awọn ẹya oriṣiriṣi ti imọ rẹ ati awọn ogbon ironu pataki.

Lo ise abala yii gege bi anfaani lati mu oye re lori koko-ọrọ naa lagbara ati lati ṣe idanimọ eyikeyi agbegbe ti o le nilo afikun ikẹkọ. Maṣe jẹ ki awọn italaya eyikeyi ti o ba pade da ọ lójú; dipo, wo wọn gẹgẹ bi awọn anfaani fun idagbasoke ati ilọsiwaju.

  1. Which of the following beef cattle breeds is small, humpless and strongly trypanotolerant, making it suited to the humid south of Nigeria? A. White Fulani B. Sokoto Gudali C. Muturu D. Friesian Answer: C
  2. The White Fulani (Bunaji) is best described as a: A. Small humpless breed B. Dual-purpose breed with black points and long horns C. Purely dairy breed D. Draught-only breed Answer: B
  3. The traditional system in which cattle herds follow seasonal grazing on open, unfenced land is called: A. Ranching B. Feedlot fattening C. Extensive (transhumant) grazing D. Zero-grazing Answer: C
  4. A steer weighs 240 kg at the start of a feedlot period and 300 kg after 60 days. Its average daily gain is: A. 0.5 kg/day B. 1.0 kg/day C. 1.5 kg/day D. 5.0 kg/day Answer: B
  5. The disease that most limits where large Zebu-type beef cattle can be kept in Nigeria is: A. Newcastle disease B. Trypanosomiasis C. Coccidiosis D. Foot rot Answer: B

Awọn Iwe Itọsọna Ti a Gba Nimọran

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Olùtẹ̀jáde: Pearson
Odún: 2017
ISBN: 978-0-13-443605-0
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Small-scale Poultry Production: Technical Guide
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Olùtẹ̀jáde: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Odún: 2004
ISBN: 978-92-5-105082-8
Apejuwe: An FAO Animal Production and Health Paper written by a Nigerian animal scientist, covering breeds, housing, feeding, incubation, disease control and marketing for small-scale poultry keepers in developing countries.
Tropical Animal Feeding: A Manual for Research Workers
Tropical Animal Feeding: A Manual for Research Workers
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ISBN: 978-92-5-103758-4
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Àwọn Ìbéèrè Tó Ti Kọjá

Ṣe o n ronu ohun ti awọn ibeere atijọ fun koko-ọrọ yii dabi? Eyi ni nọmba awọn ibeere nipa Beef Cattle Production lati awọn ọdun ti o kọja.

WAEC SSCE - Animal Husbandry - 2017

Ibeere 1 Ìròyìn

(a) State six causes of low egg production in chicken 
(b) Name three parts of the digestive system of pigs. 
(c) Enumerate six ways ways in which cattle production is important in West Africa. 
(d) State five uses of poultry eggs. 

Wo Idahun