VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NAMAKKAL

Major objectives

• To impart teaching for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes
• To conduct research programmes for M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. scholars
• Farm advisory services
• Conducting training programmes to the progressive farmers

Multifaceted activities of the department are,

• U.G. and P.G. education
• Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Avian Sciences (ICAR Scheme)
• Maintaining a modern Poultry Farm Complex
• Maintaining hatchery for supplying day-old chicks of several poultry species
• Conducting Postgraduate researches
• Facilitating researches for other college / university postgraduate students
• Carrying out need based and industry based validation researches
• Conducting PG Diploma in Commercial Poultry Production Management course
• Conducting 5 skill development courses

Courses Offered

B.V.Sc. & A.H.

• LPM 211 – Avian production management (1+1)
• LPM 221 – Commercial poultry production and hatchery management (1+1)
• LPM 222 – Diversified poultry production and current concepts in poultry management (1+1)

M.V.Sc.

• PSC 602 – Poultry nutrition and feeding (2+1)
• PSC 603 – Commercial layer production (2+1)
• PSC 604 – Commercial broiler production (2+1)
• PSC 605 – Breeder stock, flock health and hatchery management (3+1)
• PSC 606 – Management of poultry other than chicken (2+1)
• PSC 607 – Poultry products technology and marketing (2+1)
• PSC 608 – Poultry economics, projects and marketing (2+1)
• PSC 609 – Physiology of poultry production (2+1)
• LPM 608 – Poultry farm and hatchery management (2+1)

Ph.D.

• PSC 801 – Applied poultry nutrition (2+1)
• PSC 802 – Concepts in commercial poultry production (2+1)
• PSC 803 – Developments in poultry products technology (2+1)
• PSC 804 – Emerging diseases of poultry and flock health (2+1)
• PSC 805 – Advanced poultry breeding methods (2+1)
• PSC 806 – Poultry economics, marketing and integration (2+1)
• LPM 805 – Advances in poultry production management (2+1)

Infrastructure

• A well furnished air-conditioned lecture hall for conducting CAFTAS programme and P.G. classes
• Well equipped U.G. laboratory with sophisticated equipment for estimation of proximate principles, mycotoxin analysis, egg internal quality measurement, measuring eggshell strength etc.
• Fully automatic environmentally controlled broiler house for rearing 3000 broilers in all-in all-out system.
• Fully automatic hatchery unit with uninterrupted power system and digitally controlled incubators.
• Modern Japanese quail brooder cum grower house with cage and nipple drinking system
• Modern elevated cage breeder quail house with cage and semi-automatic feeding system
• Modern elevated cage layer house with automatic feeding, watering, climate control and lighting system.
• Modern turkey chick cum grower house with semi automatic feeding and watering system
• Modern turkey breeder house with semi automatic feeding and watering system.
• Modern broiler experimental house to conduct researches in broilers under both deep litter and cage system of rearing.
• Modern cross-bred breeder house with semi automatic feeding and watering system
• Modern chick cum grower house with cage, nipple drinking and semi automatic feeding system.
• An emu unit with automatic watering system
• An ostrich unit with automatic watering system.

Achievements / Excellence

• An ICAR fully financed scheme, "Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Avian Sciences" is functioning in this department.
• Revolving fund scheme on "Standardization of nutrient requirements, production and marketing of Japanese quail"
• Revolving fund scheme on "Establishment of elevated cage layer house for commercial layers"
• Conducted an International Poultry Expo and Conference – 2010 from 8th to 10th January 2010.

New strains released by this department

• Namakkal quail – 1 : A meat-type Japanese quail strain, evolved by 4-way crossing
• Namakkal gold quail : An egg-type Japanese quail strain, evolved by 5-way crossing
• Namakkal chicken – 1 : A back-yard multicoloured chicken variety for egg production purpose, evolved by 4 way crossing.

Faculty

• Dr. M.Moorthy, Professor and Head
• Dr. R.Amutha, Professor
• Dr. D.Kannan, Professor
• Dr. K.Rajendran, Assistant Professor
• Dr. V.Kannan, Assistant Professor