Animal Nutrition And Feeds Question Paper

Animal Nutrition And Feeds

Course:Bachelor Of Education

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME (IBP)
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
KAP 204: ANIMAL NUTRITION AND FEEDS
DATE: Wednesday, 28th April, 2010 TIME: 8.00 a.m.- 10.00 a.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer question ONE and any other THREE questions.

1. a) Differentiate the following terminologies:
i) Nutrition and Nutrients (2 marks)
ii) Dietary essential nutrient and Dietary non-essential nutrient.(2 marks)
iii) Digestion and Metabolism. (2 marks)
iv) Digestible protein and Metabolizable protein. (2 marks)
v) Fibrous proteins and Globular proteins (2 marks)

b) Differentiate between neutral detergent fibre, acid detergent fibre and
lignin in animal feed analysis. (6 marks)

c) What is feed dry matter and why is it important to measure the dry matter
of feeds? (4 marks)

d) Give five differences in the nutrition of pigs and poultry. (5 marks)

2. a) State any five nutrients in animal nutrition. (5 marks)

b) Give two functions of the nutrients named in (a) above (10 marks)

3. Discuss digestion in ruminants under the following headings:
a) Rumination

b) Reticulo-Rumen
c) Omasum
d) Abomasum
e) Small intestine
f) Large intestine (15 marks)

4. With suitable examples, discuss the role of sight, smell and mouth in the nutrition
of domestic animals. (15 marks)

5. Describe the various classes of animal feedstuffs. (15 marks)