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JSS2: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE - 2ND TERM

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  1. Animal Feeds And Feedings | Week 1
    3 Topics
  2. Types of Feedstuffs and Feedings | Week 2
    3 Topics
  3. Ration, Diet And Malnutrition | Week 3
    8 Topics
  4. Feeding Tools and Equipment for Farm Animals | Week 4
    3 Topics
    |
    1 Quiz
  5. Animal Pests And Diseases Control | Week 5
    4 Topics
  6. Bacterial Diseases In Farm Animals | Week 6
    2 Topics
  7. Fungal and Viral Diseases in Farm Animals | Week 7
    3 Topics
  8. Protozoan | Worm | Nutritional Diseases | Week 8
    3 Topics
  9. Effects of Diseases on Farm Animals | Week 9
    4 Topics
  10. Farm Animals Parasites | Week 10
    8 Topics
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    1 Quiz



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  • Some Common Protozoan Diseases in Farm Animals

Protozoan infections are caused by microscopic one-celled organisms formerly classified in the Kingdom Protozoa. They are usually transmitted by either an insect vector or by contact with an infected substance or surface.

unicellular
Examples of Protozoa.

Common Protozoan diseases in farm animals include;

i) Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness or Nagana): 

Animal Symptoms Transmission Prevention and Control 
Cattle,
goats,
sheep,
and
other
domestic
animals
• Drowsiness

• Severe anaemia

• Loss of weight

• Death of animals
Through
Tse Tse fly called
Glossina palpalis
• Use of insecticides

• Good sanitation
measures.

 

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