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Bio-security
Management measures taken to prevent disease causing agents from entering or leaving any place housing livestock.
Bedding
Material scattered on the floor of a chicken coop to absorb moisture and manure. Commonly used material is straw, hay, rice husk, saw dust etc.
Wattles
A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards.
Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing micro-organism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe.
Usufruct
The right to use and enjoy the profits and advantages of something belonging to another as long as the property is not damaged or altered in any way.
Trypanotolerance
The ability of a few livestock breeds to survive, produce and reproduce in tsetse-trypanosome infected areas where other breeds cannot, without recourse to the use of chemical drugs.(Source - International Trypanotolerance Centre, The Gambia, West Africa)
Sustainable output management
In sheep rearing, this refers to the system of maintaining an optimal flock size over the years, through retention of female lambs born of ewes in the flock, and the sale of male lambs for cash returns.
Standardized selection differential in breeding
In breeding, standardized selection differential is defined as the superiority of the selected animals over all animals available for selection, expressed in standard deviation units.
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