Unit 5 Animal Nutrition

5. Conservation of fodders. Storage of feeds and feed ingredients. Recent advances in feed technology and feed processing and Anti nutritional and toxic factors present in livestock feeds, Feed analysis and quality control, Digestibility trials – direct, indirect and indicator methods, Predicting feed intake in grazing animals.

UPSC PYQs

1. Discuss processing methods for roughage to improve its utilization by animals? (2013)
2. Define silage. Discuss the important methods of preparing silage. What are the important crops used for silage making? (2014)
3. What is silage? Discuss in brief about the anti- nutritional factors commonly found in animal feed? (2016)
4. Describe different methods of hay making. What are the nutrient losses during hay making and how to prevent these losses? (2019)
5. Discuss in brief the necessity of processing of animal feeds? (2020)
6. Describe in detail about preparation of silage along with its advantages and disadvantages. (2021)                                                                                                         
7. Discuss the technological applications being put into practice for improving the digestibility and nutritive value of wheat bran and paddy straw? (2012)
8. Discuss complete feeding systems for dairy farms? (2013)
9. A buffalo is grazing on a pasture. How can the feed intake of that buffalo be predicted? (2015)
10. Discuss the factors affecting digestibility of feed? (2018)
11. Write a short note on the use of indicators for digestibility determination? (2019)
12. Describe the methods by which feed intake in grazing animals is predicted? (2020)
13. Explain why the digestibility trial is considered as the best method for evaluating the nutritive value of animal feeds? (2022)
14. Justify why more than one digestibility trial needs to be conducted during indirect method of digestibility determination of feed? (2023)
15. Describe the Van- soest method of forage fiber analysis? (2023).