WAEC Areas of Concentration for Animal Husbandry (Alt. B) 2025/2026

WAEC Areas of Concentration for Animal Husbandry (Alt. B) 2025/2026, is all about understanding and managing farm animals, ensuring their well-being, and optimizing productivity. The Animal Husbandry syllabus covers essential practices such as feeding, housing, and pest and disease control to ensure efficient management of animal enterprises. It emphasizes the effective processing, preservation, packaging, storage, and marketing of animal products, alongside fostering basic entrepreneurial skills related to animal husbandry. Students will gain fundamental knowledge in animal improvement and health.

The examination consists of three papers for Nigerian candidates. Paper 1 includes forty multiple-choice questions to be completed in 40 minutes for 40 marks. Paper 2 features six essay questions, from which candidates must answer four within 2 hours for a total of 80 marks. Paper 3 is a practical paper, allowing candidates to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in 1½ hours for 60 marks.

Schools are encouraged to raise various species of farm animals and maintain agricultural laboratories, while candidates are advised to keep practical notebooks and engage in field trips to relevant facilities.

WAEC Areas of Concentration for Animal Husbandry (Alt. B) 2025/2026

LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION

• Importance of farm animals
• Classification of farm animals (ruminants and non-ruminants)
• Identification of internal organs and their functions
• Body systems and functions in farm animals
• Reproduction in livestock: definitions, mammalian and poultry reproduction, reproductive hormones, management of pregnant animals
• Livestock management systems and practices

ANIMAL NUTRITION

• Meaning and classes of animal feeds
• Livestock rations and formulation
• Processing techniques for animal products
• Marketing of animal products

PASTURE AND RANGE MANAGEMENT

• Importance and types of pasture and forage crops
• Terminologies in pasture management
• Rangeland improvement and its characteristics
• Methods of rangeland improvement

ANIMAL IMPROVEMENT

• Definition and importance of animal improvement
• Methods of farm animal improvement: advantages and disadvantages
• Artificial insemination: meaning, methods, and advantages

ANIMAL HEALTH

• Concepts of farm animal diseases and pathogens
• General symptoms and prevention/control of diseases
• Livestock parasites and pests

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (PRACTICALS)

• Identification of farm animals and their internal organs
• Tools and equipment for animal management
• Feeds and feedstuffs
• Artificial insemination techniques
• Pests and parasites of farm animals

LIST OF FACILITIES AND MAJOR EQUIPMENT

• Farm Buildings/Structures: Poultry/Pig House, Cattle/Goat/Sheep Pen, Rabbit Hutch, Bee Hive
• Live Animals: Various species including poultry, rabbits, cattle, and snails
• Specimen: Ticks, lice, liver fluke, etc.
• Charts/Pictures: Digestive, reproductive, and skeletal systems; calendars of ovulation and heat periods
• Machines/Equipment: Various tools for animal husbandry and insemination
• Drugs/Vaccines/Materials: First aid kits, syringes, and vaccines
• Feed Samples: Various types of meal and grain
• Other Equipment: Feeding troughs, drinkers, notebooks for records, and wheelbarrows.

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