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    This document outlines a lesson plan on livestock and poultry production for students. The lesson aims to teach students about caring for and managing livestock and poultry, and integrating organic agriculture practices. By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to identify proper care for sows and gilts, explain important management systems, and select healthy breeding stock. The document provides criteria for selecting healthy boars, gilts, and sows, and explains how to assess body condition scoring to determine if an animal is too fat or thin.

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    This document outlines a lesson plan on livestock and poultry production for students. The lesson aims to teach students about caring for and managing livestock and poultry, and integrating organic agriculture practices. By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to identify proper care for sows and gilts, explain important management systems, and select healthy breeding stock. The document provides criteria for selecting healthy boars, gilts, and sows, and explains how to assess body condition scoring to determine if an animal is too fat or thin.

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    This document outlines a lesson plan on livestock and poultry production for students. The lesson aims to teach students about caring for and managing livestock and poultry, and integrating organic agriculture practices. By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to identify proper care for sows and gilts, explain important management systems, and select healthy breeding stock. The document provides criteria for selecting healthy boars, gilts, and sows, and explains how to assess body condition scoring to determine if an animal is too fat or thin.

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    Republic of the Philippines

    COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION


    Region V
    POLANGUI COMMUNITY COLLEGE

    Introduction to Livestock and Poultry


    Production
    ESPERANZA O. CAÑA, LPT.
    Instructress
    After the course, the students are expected to:
    1. Articulate the relevance of livestock and poultry
    industry in attaining the food security and economic
    progress.
    2. Elaborate the standard care and management of
    livestock and poultry animals;
    3. Integrate and promote the Republic Act 10068 also
    known as “Organic Agriculture Act of 2010” in livestock
    and poultry production; and
    4. Create a farm model illustrating the swine, dairy, beef,
    and cattle production.
    At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
     Identify the care and management practices provided to sows and gilts;
     Explain the importance of providing effective and efficient management
    systems to sows and gilts; and
     Select healthy swine animal appropriate to be used in boar-for-hire,
    sow-herd, and growing-finishing enterprise.
    A B C
    1. Shiny hair and smooth skin.
    2. Good appetite.
    3. Active and moves around without difficulty, showing no signs of
    lameness.
    4. Normal respiration, pulse rate and body temperature.
    5. No abnormalities, unsoundness, boil or wound in any part of the
    body.
    6. No eye discharge.
    7. No signs of scouring
    1. Boars have two big and equal size of testicles.
    2. Avoid boars with blind or inverted teats.
    3. Avoid boars with small inside toe especially on the hind legs.
    4. Boars with strong back.
    5. Boars with weak legs and pastern encounter difficulty in mounting
    and staying on top during mating.
    6. Boars with long body.
    7. Avoid boars with “pouchy” sheath.
    1. Gilt should have a normal size of vulva.
    2. Should have at least six pairs of equally spaced functional teats.
    3. Avoid blind and inverted teats.
    4. Avoid extremely small or large nipples.
    5. At least 3 pairs of these teats should be anteriorly located.
    6. Long body is desirable.
    7. Strong legs, particularly the hind legs are highly desirable.
    8. Gilt should have strong and straight or slightly arched top line.
    9. Avoid gilt with small inside/outside toe.
    1. Blend and proportion of various body parts.
    2. Size and orientation of the ears.
    3. Size and wrinkles in the face.
    How to spot sows that are too
    fat or too thin?
    Condition Scoring Guide
    • A scale from 0 (emaciated) to 5 (grossly fat) is used in the scoring system which
    combines both visual appraisal and feel.
    • The purpose of condition scoring is to help determine feeding policy for
    individual sows or groups of sows (also applies to boars).
    Presentation of the students’
    outputs

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