Animal Husbandry (Animal Health) Warnborough College

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Aims of the Animal Husbandry (Animal Health) course from Warnborough College.

• List criteria used to assess the health status, including ill-health, of animals.

• Describe the different causes of ill-health in animals.

• Explain the methods used to prevent ill-health in animals.

• Write a standard procedure for a routine health examination of a chosen farm animal.

• Describe the symptoms of ill-health in animals.

• Compare the causes of two symptomatically similar health problems for a specified farm animal.

• Diagnose a health problem from a given set of symptoms.

• Distinguish, using labelled illustrations, between different taxonomic classes of animal pest and disease organisms.

• Describe identifying characteristics of four different disease carrying agents of specified farm animals.

• Classify commonly occurring pests and diseases of three different animals, into their taxonomic classes.

• Describe the characteristics of viruses, using illustrations and a report.

• Describe the characteristics of bacteria, using illustrations and a report.

• Describe the characteristics of protozoa, using illustrations and a report.

• Describe the characteristics of parasites, using illustrations and a report.

• Describe the characteristics of nutritional disorders, using illustrations and a report.

• Analyse the relevance of ten specified factors, to determining the health of a chosen species of farm animal.