AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

THEME – PROCESSES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 

CLASS – SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS – SS 1

TOPIC – ANIMAL FEEDS AND FEEDING

LEARNING AREA

1. Meaning and Types of Animal Feed

2. Classification of Animal Feed

3. Animal Feeding Tools

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Samples of feeds eg groundnut cakes, hay, including poultry feeds, etc.

2. Feeding tools – silage feeding trough, etc.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. state the meaning of feed.

2. list types of feeds stuffs.

3. mention feeding tools.

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

MEANING OF ANIMAL FEEDS

Animal Feeds are the food given to farm animals for growth and reproduction. Animals need feed on daily basis for them to grow and reproduce.

TYPES OF ANIMAL FEED

There are two basic types – fodder and forage.

1. Fodder – These are foods given to the farm animals which including plants cut and carried to them.

2. Forage – Forage is a plant material which mainly plant leaves and stems eaten by grazing farm animals. That’s, plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops.

Forage are cut and carried to farm animals as fodder. For example, silage, hay and chaff.

CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMAL FEED

Fodder and forage are classified into,

1. Energy yielding feeds

2. Protein yielding feeds

3. Mineral and vitamins yielding feeds.

FEEDING TOOLS 

1. Feeding troughs

2. Drinker set

3. Hay Racks

4. Bowl

5. Mangers

6. Self-feeders

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. exhibits samples of feedstuffs such as groundnut cake, palm kernel cake, cotton seed cake, forage, silage, hay, etc.

2. displays feeding tools.

3. summarizes the lesson on the board.

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. identify the various feeding tools.

2. identify the nutrients got from the various samples of feedstuffs.

3. Use6the feedstuffs to feed farm animals.

LESSON EVALUATION

Teacher asks students to,

1. state what animal feed stand for.

2. list three types of feedstuffs.

3. name two feeding tools.