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443/2 Agriculture Paper 2 Question Paper

443/2 Agriculture Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2011

THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
AGRICULTURE
PAPER 2

INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN SECTION A AND TWO QUESTIONS IN SECTION B.

SECTION A (30 MARKS)

1. State FOUR maintenance practices for a disc plough. (2 marks)

2. Name THREE methods that are used in selection of breeding stock in livestock production. (1 1/2 marks)

3. State FOUR advantages of using animals instead of tractors as a source of power on the farm. (2 marks)

4. Name ONE livestock disease that is transmitted by each of the following parasites :

(a) blue ticks; (1/2 mark)

(b) brown ear ticks; (1/2 mark)

(c) tsetse flies. (1/2 mark)

5. State FOUR methods of controlling round worms ( Ascaris sp ) in livestock. (2 Marks)

6. Give the meaning of the following terms as used in livestock health:

(a) disease; (1 mark)

(b) vaccination. (1 mark)

7. State THREE maintenance practices for a tractor battery. (1 1/2 marks)

8. Name the type of breed into which each of the following breeds of cattle are classified:

(a). Aberdeen Angus; (1/2 marks)

(b). Guernsey; (1/2 mark)

(c). Sahiwal;

(d). Red poll. (1/2 mark)

9. Give TWO ways in which proper nutrition helps to control livestock diseases.

10. List FOUR categories of livestock diseases. (2 marks)

11. Name TWO breeding system that can increase the frequency of high milk production genes in indigenous cattle.

12. Name TWO bloodless methods of castration in lambs. (1 mark)

13. Give the meaning of the following terms as used in livestock breeding:

(a) recessive gene;

(b) epistasis. (1 mark)

14. State FOUR signs that indicate that a does is about to kindle. (2 marks)

15. Name TWO development stages of a liverfluke ( Fasciola sp) which occur in fresh water snail (Limnaea sp)

16. Name the strokes in a four stroke cycle engine. (2 marks)

17. State FOUR signs of mite attack in poultry. (2 marks)

18. State THREE advantages of natural feeding in calf rearing. (1 1/2 marks)

SECTION C (40 marks)
ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION.

19 (a) Explain the factors consIdered when culling livestock. (5 marks)

(b). Describe poultry management under the following sub-headings :

(¡). Causes of stress; (8 marks)

(¡¡). Control measures for cannibalism. (7 marks)

20. (a). Describe the feeding practices in artificial rearing of a dairy calf. (10 marks)

(b). Describe Newcastle disease under the following sub-headings:

(¡). Casual organism; (1 mark)

(¡¡). Signs of infection; (7 marks)

(¡¡¡). Control measures. (2 marks)

21. (a). Describe the uses of fences on the farm. (10 marks)

(b). Give FIVE harmful effects of liver flakes in sheep rearing. (5 marks)

(c). State the differences between a diesel engine and a petrol engine. (5 marks)

443/2 Agriculture Paper 2 Question Paper

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