Genesis and Objective
This Department was started during the year 1985, with the objective of teaching the undergraduate students of B.V.Sc., the methods and techniques of livestock handling, feeding, housing, breeding and disease management. In addition, this department has the mandate of rearing farm animals for the purpose of teaching, research and extension activities.
Courses Offered
Undergraduate
- LPM 111 - Livestock Production and Management-I (General principles and ruminants) (3+1)
- LPM 122 - Livestock Production and Management-II (Monogastric and laboratory animals) (1+1)
- LPM 223 - Environmental Studies (1+1)
- LFP 211 - Livestock farm practice (0+1)
- LFP 221 - Livestock farm practice (0+1)
- SC - Study circle (0+1)
- ETP - Entrepreneurial training in dairy farming, sheep, goat, pig and rabbit farming
- VPE 511 - Environment and environmental hygiene (2+1)
Postgraduate
This Department is offering M.V.Sc and Ph.D in Livestock Production and Management. The following postgraduate courses are being offered to the students regularly, by this department.
- LPM 601 - Cattle And Buffalo Production And Management (2+1)
- LPM 602 - Sheep and goat production and management (2+1)
- LPM 603 - Swine production and management (1+1)
- LPM 604 - Laboratory animal production and management (1+1)
- LPM 605 - Shelter management (1+1)
- LPM 606 - Principles of environmental hygiene and waste management (2+0)
- LPM 607 - Climatology and animal production (1+0)
- LPM 608 - Poultry farm and hatchery management (2+1)
- LPM 609 - Farm animal behavior (1+0)
- LPM 610 - Integrated livestock farming system (2+1)
- LPM 611 - Equine production and management (1+1)
- LPM 612 - Wild life management and conservation (2+0)
- LPM 613 - Livestock business management (1+1)
- LPM 691 - Master's seminar (1+0)
- LPM 699 - Master's research (20)
- LPM 801 - Advances in cattle and buffalo production and management (3+0)
- LPM 802 - Advances in sheep and goat production and management (2+1)
- LPM 803 - Advances in swine production and management (2+1)
- LPM 804 - Advances in laboratory animal production and management (1+1)
- LPM 805 - Advances in poultry production management (2+1)
- LPM 806 - Advances in environmental management (1+1)
- LPM 807 - Advances in equine management (2+0)
- LPM 891 - Doctoral seminar-i (1+0)
- LPM 892 - Doctoral seminar-ii (1+0)
- LPM 899 - Doctoral research (45)
As on May 2016, 17 M.V.Sc students and 6 Ph.D. students have completed their degree successfully. All the post graduate students were worked on field problems with respect to livestock management. Some important findings are as follows:
Achievements
- Dead poultry birds can be composted in to manure along with poultry and cattle manure.
- Poultry slaughter waste materials can be composted with poultry droppings.
- Management practices of a nomadic sheep breed "Coimbatore" were studied and documented.
- Hedge lucerne and mulberry leaves can be effectively to rabbits.
- Raised platform sheds are found suitable to broiler rabbits.
- The hardness of drinking water for poultry can be up to 3000 ppm without adverse effect on the health of the birds.
- Fogging operation in poultry sheds reduce the microclimatic temperature and increases the relative humidity.
- Water sprinkling and mineral mixture supplementation improves the milk yield and fat content in crossbred cattle.
- Paddy straw and coir pith are proved good carbon sources for dead bird composting.
- Liquid ammonia is proved to be a good disinfectant against coccidia infection.
- Supplementation of fenugreek seed improve both milk yield and milk composition (fat and SNF) in crossbred cattle.
- Production of bio-diesel form poultry dead birds by dry rendering method – An eco friendly approach
Self Employment Courses
The following self employment courses are regularly offered with the duration 30 days for the benefit of farmers.
- Dairy farming
- Pig farming
- Rabbit farming
Completed Research Works
- Bio-diesel production from dead layer birds.
- Feeding of UMMB for fattening of sheep
Ongoing Research Works
- Composting of dead birds by windrow method
- Goat farming practices in southern region of Tamil Nadu
Externally Funded Projects
- An ICAR sponsored scheme on "Experiential Learning – Setting up of Facilities for Hands on Training on Commercial Pig Rearing" is in operation from 01.12.2006.
- A meteorological observatory is maintained by this department and climatic data from the year 1996 has been recorded and maintained.
- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India spornsored scheme Pig husbandry based integrated approach for empowerment of SC/ST rural women of Kolli hills of Tamil Nadu" with a financial out lay of Rs. 36.097 lakhs
Schemes funded by the University
- Revolving fund scheme on commercial sheep rearing.
Faculty
- Dr. K.Sivakumar, Professor and Head
- Dr. V.Ramesh, Professor
