Term: Second Term / Term 2
Week : Week 5
Class : Primary 5/ Basic 5/ Grade 5
Subject : Agricultural Science
Topic : Requirement for raising livestock. (Fowl)
Duration : 40 minutes
Previous Knowledge : Learners have been taught, general requirement for livestock production on the farm land.
Agricultural Science for Primary Schools, Book 5.
Scheme of work for Upper Primary 4 – 6.
Online Resources
Instructional Materials : Charts showing different houses such deep litter system, cage system.
Behavioural Objectives : By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to :
i. Identify the basic requirement and steps in raising livestock, i. e. Fowl
ii. Explains the steps involved in raising livestock
Steps Involved in Raising Livestock.
There are steps involved in raising farm animals: e. g. Fowl. Below are the different steps involved in raising a fowl.
- Provision of houses or shelter for chicks: There should be provision of houses for chicks in order to prevent them from harsh weather and predators. A farmer who is ready to raise livestock must make provision of a well ventilated shelter to ensure good growth of livestock. Therefore, a cage may be used as a good shelter for chicks.
Chicks may be reared extensively or intensively. It may be reared using a deep litter system or a battery cage system.
- Buying a young chicken: The farmer must make sure he buys enough chicks, that is, young chicken. These young chicks after they have been fed with good balanced diet will now develop through growers to layers and broilers.
Layers are egg-laying hen that produces eggs for human consumption while broilers is a matured hen that is ready for meat production.
- Daily provision of food and water : There should be sufficient supply of food and water to chicks in order to increase their growth to the laying hen and broilers. These classes of chickens are feed according to their level of growth. The baby chicks are fed by starting with chicks’ mash. Mash is a mixture of ground feeds for livestock or poultry. The feed can be spread on papers before they are gradually introduced to the feeding trough. The layers and the broilers are fed through feeding trough. A constant supply of clean water should be provided in a drinking trough.
- Occasional Medication: The chicks are checked regularly and given medications if need be.
- Cleaning of livestock environment: The environment of the livestock are cleaned on daily basis, to avoid germs and dirt from entering their body. A clean and healthy environment is very important to prevent rats and snakes from attacking the young chicks.
- Removal of sick or dead animals among living animals: The sick or dead animals must be removed to avoid the spread of the disease that caused the sickness. The act of removing sick animals from the healthy ones is called culling.
- Selling or slaughtering of matured animals: The matured animals are sold out and slaughtered to be eating.
Presentation Steps:
Step I: The teacher revises the previous topic with the learners by asking some questions in order to arouse their interest.
Step II: He / She introduces the new topic to the learners
Step III: The teacher then identify the steps involved in raising livestock (Fowl)
Step IV: Explains the procedure applied in raising livestock.
Evaluation: The teacher reviews the lesson explained by asking the learners some questions as stated below:
1. What are chicks? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. A place where chicks can be kept is _________________________________.
3. The two systems of rearing chicks are _____________________ and ___________________.
4. Livestock needs to be given good medication. (True, False)
5. What are layers? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What are broilers? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Conclusion: At the end of the lesson, learners were able to answer the questions correctly.
Assignment:
1. Name any four steps of raising livestock.
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2. The act of removing sick animals from the healthy ones is called _______________________.
