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Part One: Questions and Answers
1. Define livestock health and disease?
Answer:
o Health is the state of the body whereby all organs and systems function
normally.
o Disease is the deviation from the normal functioning of the body organs
and systems of the animal.
2. List the importance of keeping livestock healthy.
Answer:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
Health animals produce high quantity and quality products
Healthy animals have low production costs
Health animals work for long period.
Healthy animals live longer
Healthy animals grow (mature) faster
Healthy animals attract better prices in the market compared to sick animals.
3. Identify some factors that influence livestock diseases
Answer:
o Age of the animal
o Sex of the animal
o Climate change
o Climate change
o Skin color
o Poor or inadequate feeding
o Species of the animal
o Improper handling
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4. Illustrate any four importance of keeping livestock healthy
Answer:
(a) Health animals produce high quantity and quality products
(b) Healthy animals have low production costs
(c) Health animals work for long period.
(d) Healthy animals live longer
5. List four predisposing factors of livestock diseases
Answer:
(a) Age of the animal
(b) Sex of the animal
(c) Skin color
(d) Climate change
6. List signs of ill-health in livestock
Answer:
a) Lack of appetite
b) Low production (e.g. milk)
c) Excessive salivation
d) Swelling
e) Restlessness
f) High body temperature
g) Abnormal color of urine
h) Increase or decrease in pulse rate
7. Mention four factors that cause livestock diseases
Answer:
a) Living organisms e.g. micro-organisms
b) Chemical poisoning
c) Poor feeding and nutrition
d) Physical injuries
8. Write any three out of signs (symptoms) of ill-health in livestock
Answer:
(a) Reduced appetite
(b) Reduced production (e.g. milk)
(c) Excessive Salivation
9. State the general methods of disease control in livestock
Answer:
a) Keeping sanitation
b) Proper feeding
c) Quarantine
d) Control of parasites
e) Culling
f) Regular vaccination of animal
g) Proper housing of animals
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10. State the appropriate ways of handling livestock
Answer:
a) Hoof trimming
b) Dehorning
c) Castration
d) Culling
11. What causes livestock diseases?
Answer:
a) Microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi
b) Nutritional deficiency
c) Chemical poisoning
12. How can you tell that an animal is sick?
Answer:
Sick animals may have the following signs (symptoms);
a) Lack of appetite
b) Reduced production, e.g. milk
c) Excessive salivation
d) Diarrhea
e) Abnormal color of urine
f) Abnormal swelling
13. Explain the methods of controlling livestock diseases
Answer:
The methods of controlling livestock diseases are including;
a) Keeping sanitation
b) Proper feeding
c) Quarantine
d) Control of parasites
e) Culling
f) Regular vaccination of animal
g) Proper housing of animals
14. How does livestock disease affect farm income?
Answer:
o Livestock diseases reduce livestock production such as milk and meat.
o Livestock diseases reduces reproduction in animals
o Livestock diseases also increase expenses or costs used in treating and
handling sick animals.
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15. Causes of livestock diseases are grouped into several groups.
a) Identify two living organisms that cause disease to livestock
b) Name a disease that affects only lactating female animal
Answer:
(b) Micro-organisms and parasites
(c) Mastitis
16. Explain the advantages of docking in sheep
Answer:
• For fat distribution in the body
• To make mating easy
• For cleanliness
17. Why is cattle dehorned?
Answer:
• To handle easily
• To prevent the injuries on each other
• Reduction of farm destruction.
18. Define the following terms
a) Vaccine
b) Isolation
c) Poor feeding
d) Quarantine
e) Culling
f) Sanitation
Answer:
(d) Vaccine is any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer
immunity against a specific disease.
(e) Isolation is the removal of sick animals from the healthy animals to
prevent cross infection.
(f) Proper feeding is the process of providing animals with a balanced diet.
(g) Quarantine is a method of sick animals is deliberately isolated from
healthy animals.
(h) Culling is the removal of sick and un-productive animals from the herd.
(i) Sanitation is the provision of an appropriate clean environment that is
free from disease-causing organisms.
19. Explain the advantages of caponization
Answer:
• To make docile
• To improve meat quality
• To reduce breeding
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20. What are the reasons for culling livestock?
Answer:
The main reasons for culling livestock are including;
a) Poor health
b) Old age
c) Poor production
d) Heredity defects
e) Poor mothering ability
21. Why hoof is trimmed from livestock?
Answer:
• To facilitate easy movement
• To control foot rot diseases
• To prevent the ram from injuring the ewe during mating.
22. If the Newcastle diseases affect poultry, how do you control it?
Answer:
• Vaccination
• Quarantine
• Killing infected birds.
23. What is the notifiable disease in livestock?
Answer:
Notifiable disease is a disease that must be reported to public health authorities
at the time it is diagnosed because it is potentially dangerous to human or animal
health.
24. Name four notifiable diseases in livestock
Answer:
Anthrax, brucellosis, food and mouth diseases, rinderpest
25. What are the following appropriate methods of handling livestock
A) Culling
B) Docking
C) Caponization
Answers:
A) Culling is the removal of sick and un-productive animals from the herd.
B) Docking is the removal of tail in sheep
C) Caponization is the process of removing tests from male birds or cock.
26. What is zoonotic disease (zoonoses)?
Answer:
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted from an animal
to human, e.g. anthrax.
27. State two nutritional diseases which affect livestock
Answer:
Milk fever and bloat
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28. Discuss foot rot and mouth diseases under the following sub-headings.
a. Casual organism
b. Livestock species attacked
c. Symptoms
d. Control measures
Answer:
a. Virus
b. Cattle, sheep and goats
c. Symptoms of foot and mouth diseases are including,
• Lameness
• Salivation
• Blister
d. Control of foot and mouth diseases are including;
• Quarantine
• Vaccination
• Slaughtering
• Burning or burying dead animals
29. The diagram below shows a cow suffering from bloat and inserted a tool in
the left abdomen to relieve the bloat.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
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What is bloat?
State two causes of bloat in cattle
Give two symptoms of bloat
Name the surgical tool used to relieve bloat in cattle
In case a cow gets bloat, how would it be handled
How would you manage a herd of cows during a rainy season to
minimize the chances of getting bloat?
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Answers – Q.29:
a) Bloat is the accumulation of excessive gas within the left side of the
abdomen.
b) Causes of bloat in cattle can be;
• Grazing young and lush pasture (grazing succulent pasture)
• Digestive disorder
• Excessive or fast feeding
c) Symptoms of bloat are including;
• Difficult breathing
• Profuse salivation
• Distress
d) Using trocar and cannula to relieve or remove gas from the stomach
e) The main ways of handling a cow with bloat are including;
• Exercising the sick animal
• Giving sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) diluted in water through
tube.
• Removing gas from the stomach by using trocar and cannula
f) The main factors to minimize the chance of cattle getting bloat during rainy
seasons are including,
• Avoid cattle grazing on wet pasture
• Feed the animal on dry forage (feed the cattle on dry pasture)
30. Explain the term quarantine in animals
Answer:
Quarantine is the isolation of sick animals from healthy animals.
31. State an appropriate way of handling of cattle during treatment
Answer:
The appropriate ways of handling of cattle are hoof trimming, dehorning and
culling.
32. Define the following terms
a) Hoof trimming
b) Dehorning (disbudding)
c) Castration
d) Caponization
Answers:
a) Hoof trimming is the cutting back of overgrown hooves on animals.
b) Dehorning (disbudding) is the practices of removing or stopping the
growth of horns in cattle.
c) Castration is the practices of making the testicles of male animal none
functional.
d) Caponization is the process of removing tests from male birds or cock.
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33. State any two reasons for hoof trimming in animals
Answer:
Reasons for hoof trimming
1. To facilitate easy movement
2. To control foot rot diseases
3. To prevent the ram from injuring the
ewe during mating
34. State any two reasons for dehorning in cattle
Answer:
Reasons for dehorning in cattle
1. Easy to handle
2. To prevent the injuries on each other
3. Reduction of farm destruction
4. Transportation and feeding is easy
35. State any two reasons for castration in animals
Answer:
Reasons for castration
1. To control or prevent inbreeding
2. To encourage fast growth rate
3. To improve quality of meat
36. State any two reasons for docking in sheep
Answer:
Reasons for docking in sheep
1. To enable fat distribution in the body
2. To make mating easy
3. For cleanliness
4. To avoid occurrence or attack of blowfly
37. What are the reasons for caponization in male birds or cock
Answer:
Reasons for Caponization in male birds or cock
1. To improve meat quality
2. To make docile
3. To attract better price in market
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38. List three signs that the animal is in good health?
Answer:
• High production
• Fast growth rate
• Reduces production costs
• Attract better process in the market
• Produce health offspring
39. Why animal hooves are trimmed?
Answer:
Animal hooves are trimmed to;
• facilitate easy movement
• control foot rot diseases
• prevent the ram from injuring ewe during mating
40. Name two diseases caused lameness in cattle
Answer:
Foot rot and black quarter
41. Name the causes of the following diseases
a. Fowl typhoid
b. East coast fever
c. Foot rot
d. Coccidiosis
e. Newcastle disease
f. Anthrax
Answers:
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Type of disease
Fowl typhoid
East coast fever
Foot rot
Coccidiosis
Newcastle disease
Pathogen
salmonella bacteria
theileria parva
fusiformis species
coccidia of elmeria
newcastle disease virus
Anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
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42. The below table contains different diseases
So apply the diseases in the above table with their suitable animals below;
i.
It attacks all lactating female animal
ii.
It attacks cattle, sheep and goats
iii.
It attacks poultry
Answers:
i.
Mastitis
ii.
Anthrax
iii.
Fowl pox
43. Complete the below table about livestock diseases
Disease and livestock
attacked
Causal agent
Theileria parva
Symptoms
•
•
•
Anaplasmosis it
attacks cattle sheep
and goats
Anaplasma
meriginate
•
Coccidiosis
It attacks calves,
poultry, lambs and
young rabbits
Coccidia of
elmeria spp
•
Trypanosomiasis
It attacks cattle,
sheep, goats, pigs and
horses
Trypnosoma spp •
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•
•
Control measures
Swollen lymph
nodes
Breathing
difficulties
High body
temperature
Diarrhea, which
maybe whitish
or blood stained
Ruffled feathers
Drooping wings
•
•
Controlling ticks
Treating using
appropriate drugs
•
•
Controlling ticks
Treating using
appropriate drugs
▪
▪
▪
Controlling tsetse
fly
Treating with
appropriate drugs
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Answers for question 43:
Disease and
livestock attacked
East coast fever
Causal agent
Theileria
parva
Symptoms
•
•
•
Anaplasmosis it
attacks cattle
sheep and goats
Anaplasma
meriginate
•
•
Coccidiosis
It attacks calves,
poultry, lambs and
young rabbits
Coccidia of
elmeria spp
•
Trypanosomiasis
It attacks cattle,
sheep, goats, pigs
and horses
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•
•
Trypnosoma
spp
•
•
•
•
•
Control measures
Swollen lymph
nodes
Breathing
difficulties
High body
temperature
Constipation
Rise in
temperature
•
•
Controlling ticks
Treating using
appropriate drugs
•
•
Controlling ticks
Treating using
appropriate drugs
Diarrhea, which
maybe whitish or
blood stained
Ruffled feathers
Drooping wings
▪
High fever
Enlarged lymph
nodes
Anemia
Loss of appetite
Emaciation
▪
Hygiene
improvement
Avoiding
overcrowding
Treating with
appropriate
drugs
Controlling tsetse
fly
Treating with
appropriate drugs
▪
▪
▪
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44. The following table shows information about livestock diseases. Complete
it by filling the missing information.
Disease
Animal
affected
Causal
agent
Anthrax
Clostridium
bacteria
Symptoms
1)
•
2)
•
•
1)
•
2)
•
•
•
Poultry
•
•
•
Theileria
parva
Control
Lesions on
skin, comb,
leg and vent
Breathing
difficulties
Poor growth
Poor egg
production
2)
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Early cases
treated with
antibiotics
Vaccination
Quarantine
▪
▪
▪
▪
1)
Proper disposal
or burning of
carcasses
Quarantine
Vaccination
Controlling ticks
Treating with
using
appropriate
drugs
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Answers for question 44:
Disease
Anthrax
Black
quarter
Animal
affected
Cattle,
sheep,
goats
Cattle,
sheep and
goats
Causal
agent
•
Bacillus
anthracis
Clostridium
bacteria
Fowl pox
Poultry
Fowl pox
virus
East
coast
fever
Cattle
Theileria
parva
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Symptoms
Control
High body
temperature
Sudden death
Watery blood
oozes body
openings
Lameness
Shivering
High fever
Lack of
appetite
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Lesions on
skin, comb,
leg and vent
• Breathing
difficulties
• Poor growth
• Poor egg
production
• Swollen lymph
nodes
• Breathing
difficulties
• High body
temperature
•
•
•
•
•
•
Proper disposal
or burning of
carcasses
Quarantine
Vaccination
Early cases
treated with
antibiotics
Vaccination
Quarantine
▪
▪
Vaccination
Killing infected
birds
▪
▪
Controlling ticks
Treating with
using
appropriate
drugs
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45. Describe trypanosomiasis under the following terms
a) Any two animals attacked
b) Causal agent
c) The vector that transmits
d) Any two symptoms
e) Any two control measures
Answers:
a) Cattle, sheep and goats
b) Trypanosome spp
c) Tsetse fly
d) High fever, anemia, loss of appetite
e) Controlling tsetse flies and treating with appropriate drugs
46. Describe Brucellosis disease in cattle under the following points
a) Casual organism
b) Any two animals attacked
c) Any three signs (symptoms) of attack
d) Any three control measures
Answers:
a) Brucella abortus
b) Cattle, sheep and horses
c) Abortion in late pregnancy, retention of placenta, brownish vaginal
discharge
d) Vaccination, use of healthy bulls, proper sanitation
47. The following table shows the information of animal diseases.
Complete by filling in the missing information.
Disease Causative
agent
Mode of
Symptom
transition
- High temperature
Bacillus
Foot rot
Bloat
Grazing moist
infected pasture
- Lameness
- Accumulation of gases in left
abdomen
-
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Answers Q. 47:
Disease Causative
agent
Anthrax
Bacillus
Foot rot
Fusiforms
Bloat
Feeding of
succulent
pasture
Mode of
transition
Symptom
Feed of infected
pasture
- High temperature
Grazing moist
infected pasture
- Lameness
Excessive feeding
of succulent
pasture
- Sudden death
- Swollen and painful hoof
- Accumulation of gases in left
abdomen
- Profuse salivation
48. Milk fever is a type of nutritional diseases which affects livestock
a) Identify the cause of milk fever in dairy cow
b) Give any three symptoms of milk fever
c) State any method of controlling milk fever
Answers:
a) Low level of calcium in the blood
b) Muscular twitching, staggering, coma, paralysis
c) Feeding animals on diet rich in calcium
49. The diagram below shows a certain routine management practice carried
out on sheep.
a) Identify the above method
b) Give two reasons why the above practice is carried out on sheep
c) Name the tools used for this method
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Answers Q. 49:
a) Docking (tailing)
b) Fat distribution in the body, for cleanliness, to make mating easy, to avoid
occurrence of blowfly attack
c) A burdizzo, a rubber ring, a knife or a hot iron
50. The practice of removing horns from cattle is called dehorning (disbudding).
a) Why dehorning is important? Give two reasons.
b) Write down methods of used for dehorning.
Answers:
a. Dehorning is important for the following reasons;
• Reduction of farm destruction
• Easy to handle
• Prevents injuries on each other
• Easy to transport
b. Methods used in dehorning are including;
• Chemical method
• Hot iron
• Dehorning iron
• Rubber ring with elastrator
• Dehorning saw
51. The diagram below shows a certain routine management practice carried
out on livestock.
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Which portion of the hoof should be trimmed?
Identify the above method
Write down any two reasons for making the above method
Identify the type of disease affected the animal if not practiced the above
method
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Answers for question 51:
a) The overgrown hoof should be trimmed
b) Hoof trimming
c) To facilitate easy movement, to control foot rot disease
d) Foot rot diseases
52. The following diagram is about a chicken with symptoms of certain disease
a)
b)
c)
d)
Identify the above type of disease
Name the causative agent of the disease
Apart from lesions on comb, state two other symptoms of the disease
State two control measures for the above disease
Answers:
a) Fowl pox
b) Fowl pox virus
c) Breathing difficulties, poor growth, poor egg production
d) Vaccination, killing infected birds
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Multiple Choice Questions: Circle the Correct Answer
1. ___________ is the state of the body where by all organs and systems function
normally.
A. Viral diseases
B. Bacterial diseases
C. Health
D. Diseases
2. Which one is a bacterial disease?
A. Newcastle
B. Foot and mouth disease
C. Fowl typhoid
D. Fowl pox
3. Livestock health can be defined as
A. The state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
B. The state of body whereby both the body and mind are in a balaced condition
C. The deviation from the normal functioning of the body organs and systems
D. The state of the body whereby all organs and systems function normally
4. The following diagram shows an infection of udder of a cow.
Identify the type of the above disease
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Bloat
Milk fever
Newcastle
Mastitis
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5. Which of the following is a sign of ill health in livestock?
A. Abnormal coloration of urine
B. Swollen lymph nodes
C. Mucus in eyes (abnormal lacrimation)
D. All of them
6. The following diagram shows an appropriate method of handling livestock.
Identify the above method?
A. Dehorning
B. Docking
C. Culling
D. Hoof trimming
7. The following diagram shows the removal of tail in sheep
The above diagram is all about
A. Caponization
B. Culling
C. Docking
D. Dehorning
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8. Which of the following devices is used to dock tails of lambs?
A. Elastrator
B. Emasculator
C. Emasculative
D. All of the these can be used
9. The following diagram shows farm animals
Which method of disease control illustrates the above diagram?
A. Sanitation
B. Vaccination
C. Proper feeding
D. Quarantine
10. The type of disease that can affect only a particular sex of animal is _____
A. Swine fever
B. Fowl pox
C. Mastitis
D. Rinderpest
11. The following diagram shows farm animal suffering a type of disease
Identify the type of disease which the above symptom illustrates
A. Scouring
B. Foot rot
C. Black quarter
D. Rabies
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12. The following diagram shows an overgrown hoof of a farm animal
Which disease is likely to affect this farm animal?
A. Foot and mouth
B. Anthrax
C. Foot rot
D. Rinderpest
13. The following diagram shows a cow. Which part does Mastitis disease infect?
14. A nutritional problem characterized by a swollen abdomen on the animal’s left
side due to gas distention is commonly referred to as
A. Brucellosis
B. Milk fever
C. East coast fever
D. Bloat
15. The practice of removing sick and unproductive animals from the herd is known
as _____
A. Castration
B. Dehorning
C. Docking
D. Culling
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16. Which way encourages the spread of diseases among livestock?
A. Sanitation
C. Overcrowding
B. Quarantine
D. Vaccination
17. Which of the following does not belong to general methods of disease control in
livestock
A. Sanitation
B. Improper feeding
C. Culling
D. Control of parasites
18. The removal of all parts of the tail from sheep is referred to as
A. Castration
B. Notching
C. Docking
D. Dehorning
19. Foot rot is a __________________ disease
A. Viral
B. Nutritional
C. Bacterial
D. Fungal
20. A trocar and cannula is used to relieve what problem in cattle?
A. Mastitis
B. Milk fever
C. Bloat
D. East coast fever
21. Caponization is the process of removing testis from the
A. Male birds and cock
B. Male sheep
C. Male goats
D. None of the above
22. The removal of the testicles from a male animal is
A. Dehorning
B. Docking
C. Castration
D. Culling
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Biology Questions & Answers - Chapter 2: Livestock Health & Diseases
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23. The following diagram shows a method of disease control
Identify the above method
A. Quarantine
B. Control of bloat
C. Isolation
D. Control of parasite
24. Which of the following is not microorganism which cause livestock disease
A. Protozoa
B. Fungi
C. Ticks
D. Virus
25. Livestock diseases are caused by the below factors, EXCEPT
A. Chemical poisoning
B. Proper feeding
C. Physical injuries
D. Poor feeding
26. Identify the main reason for sick animal isolation
A. Proper feeding
B. Avoiding physical injuries
C. Prevention of disease spreading
D. Prevention of chemical poisoning
27. Milk fever is a __________________ disease
A. Bacterial disease
B. Protozoan disease
C. Nutritional disease
D. Fungal disease
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Form 4 Biology – Chapter 2 – Revision and Exam Practice Book