The course focuses on topics such as selection and systems of breeding livestock, heritability and traits of economic importance, and genetic and statistical principles as they apply to farm animals. The application of the animal breeding techniques will lead to improvement of animal breeds, which will consequntly increase profits of farms. Other topics discussed in the course are the interaction between genes and the environment on some traits in livestocks, and designing of livestock breeding programmes.
- Teacher: Dennis O. Umesiobi