Meaning and Types of Animal Feeds | Feeding Tools and Equipment JSS 2 Agriculture
AGRICULTURE
JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (JSS 2)
THEME – PROCESSES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
TOPIC – ANIMAL FEEDS AND FEEDING
LEARNING AREA
- Meaning and Types of Animal Feeds
- Feeding Tools and Equipment
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
LESSON 1 – MEANING AND TYPES OF 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. 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.
Fodder and forage are classified into,
- Energy yielding feeds
- Protein yielding feeds
- Mineral and vitamins yielding feeds.
LESSON 2 – 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. use the 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.