LPM

Learn about feeding and rearing of calves, including calf nutrition, milk feeding schedules, weaning practices, and different calf rearing methods.

Learn about weaning in calves, including the ideal weaning age, advantages, disadvantages, milk-feeding guidelines, and pail-feeding training.

Learn about colostrum feeding in calves, including its importance, benefits, passive immunity, gut closure, feeding quantity, and substitutes.

Learn the essential management practices immediately after calving, including postpartum care of the cow, placenta management, prevention of metabolic disorders, newborn calf care, navel treatment, neonatal ascariasis, and early neonatal management.

Learn about the care of pregnant dairy cows, calving pen management, signs of approaching parturition, and essential calving practices.

Learn about wall materials used in animal buildings, including building bricks, vitrified paving bricks, glazed bricks, granite, whin stones, and sandstones. Understand their properties, uses, and suitability for livestock housing construction.

Learn about the construction of animal house floors, including flooring requirements, materials, floor types, and design principles for efficient, hygienic, and comfortable livestock housing.

Learn about the different roofing materials used in animal housing, including tiles, asbestos sheets, aluminum sheets, galvanized iron sheets, and thatched roofs. Understand their properties, advantages, disadvantages, and suitability for livestock buildings.

Learn about the arrangement of farm buildings, farmstead planning, building categories, quarantine and isolation sheds, and common farm layout systems.

Learn the principles of animal housing design, including environmental control, disease prevention, labor efficiency, product quality, and roof types.