Signs of ill health
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How to identify ill health as a departure from the healthy picture: behaviour, appearance, dung, production drop, and urgent signs that mean isolate and call the vet.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Maintaining animal health
- Why animal health pays
- Signs of good health
- Signs of ill health
- Daily observation and health records
- Feeding and water as health practices
- Housing, hygiene and waste
- Vaccination and deworming
- Controlling ticks and other external parasites
- Quarantine of new and sick animals
- Treatment, the vet and notifiable disease
- One Health and practices on the school farm