Livestock Production

Kurt Murray
kmurr@okcareertech.org
(405) 743-5489

Introduction to Agriscience

Unit LSP1: Nature and importance of livestock production (7 hours)

Benchmark LSP1-1: Students will discuss the meaning of livestock production and list important species and products.

Benchmark LSP1-2: Students will describe the scope and importance of livestock production in the local community, Oklahoma, and the United States.

Benchmark LSP1-3: Students will contrast and compare approaches with livestock enterprises, including family farm production, contract production, wheat pasture production, large cow/calf ranch production, stocker production, and feedlot operation.

Benchmark LSP1-4: Students will explain the importance and practice of animal well-being and ethics with livestock production.

Unit LSP2: Career entry and advancement in the livestock industry (8 hours)

Benchmark LSP2-1: Students will identify occupations in the livestock industry and list the competencies needed for occupational entry.

Benchmark LSP2-2: Students will identify and assess entrepreneurship opportunities in the livestock industry.

Benchmark LSP2-3: Students will name and describe important personal skills for success in the livestock industry.

Unit LSP3: Personal and occupational safety with livestock (7 hours)

Benchmark LSP3-1: Students will assess personal and occupational safety requirements in livestock work and choose appropriate safety practices.

Benchmark LSP3-2: Students will properly select, use, and maintain personal protective equipment when working with livestock.

Benchmark LSP3-3: Students will relate behavioral characteristics of livestock species in applying safe handling practices.

Benchmark LSP3-4: Students will define zoonosis, relate examples, and identify appropriate safety practices.

Unit LSP4: Livestock biology (16 hours)

Benchmark LSP4-1: Students will identify livestock by common and scientific names.

Benchmark LSP4-2: Students will identify the major external parts of livestock species (cattle, swine, and sheep) and relate these to conformation.

Benchmark LSP4-3: Students will name and describe functions of the major body systems of livestock, including integumentary, skeletal, muscular, digestive, excretory, urinary, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, and endocrine systems.

Benchmark LSP4-4: Students will define hormones and relate the role of hormones to life processes.

Benchmark LSP4-5: Students will identify kinds and structure of bones and relate bone development to livestock health.

Benchmark LSP4-6: Students explain the meaning of locomotion and its importance with livestock.

Unit LSP5: Livestock genetics and reproduction (15 hours)

Benchmark LSP5-1: Students will discuss the importance of genetics and heredity with livestock, including the role of pedigrees in animal selection.

Benchmark LSP5-2: Students will use the Punnett Square to predict genetic traits in offspring.

Benchmark LSP5-3: Students will identify major parts and functions of male and female livestock reproductive systems.

Benchmark LSP5-4: Students will describe mating behavior and the role of the estrous cycle in female livestock.

Benchmark LSP5-5: Students will describe artificial insemination, estrous synchronization, embryo transfer, and other reproductive technologies and will identify their advantages and disadvantages in livestock production.

Benchmark LSP5-6: Students will explain phases of reproductive development in livestock, including puberty, fertilization, gestation, parturition, and lactation.

Benchmark LSP5-7: Students will describe the appropriate care of pregnant female livestock, including feeding, exercise, housing, and birthing practices.

Benchmark LSP5-8: Students will describe proper care of new-born animals and of the developing young animal.

Unit LSP6: Livestock nutrition and feeding (15 hours)

Benchmark LSP6-1: Students will explain the digestive, absorption, and metabolism processes of livestock and distinguish between ruminants and nonruminants.

Benchmark LSP6-2: Students will explain the nutrient needs of livestock based on species, age, life stage, and activity.

Benchmark LSP6-3: Students will describe how the nutrient needs of livestock are met with various feedstuffs, including roughages, concentrates, supplements, and minerals.

Benchmark LSP6-4: Students will discuss the role and quality of pastures in the nutrition of livestock by species.

Benchmark LSP6-5: Students will demonstrate appropriate rations for livestock that meet nutrient needs and are practical, economical, and palatable.

Benchmark LSP6-6: Students will name methods of feeding livestock and list the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Unit LSP7: Livestock health management (15 hours)

Benchmark LSP7-1: Students will explain the meaning of health and disease and describe signs of health.

Benchmark LSP7-2: Students will list common diseases and parasites of livestock, including symptoms and treatment.

Benchmark LSP7-3: Students will identify livestock health management practices, including nutrition, sanitation, vaccination, and environment.

Benchmark LSP7-4: Students will demonstrate the proper administration of medications used with livestock and explain the meaning of withdrawal.

Unit LSP8: Livestock production management (21 hours)

Benchmark LSP8-1: Students will explain the meaning and importance of producer quality assurance programs.

Benchmark LSP8-2: Students will classify livestock species by age and sex condition and indicate uses of these classes in various production systems.

Benchmark LSP8-3: Students will demonstrate skills in selecting and judging livestock to achieve specific production goals.

Benchmark LSP8-4: Students will identify major breeds of livestock and describe production characteristics of each.

Benchmark LSP8-5: Students will describe livestock breeding practices.

Benchmark LSP8-6: Students will demonstrate animal management practices, including castration, docking, and identification.

Benchmark LSP8-7: Students will describe land, housing, fence, and facility needs in the production of livestock by species.

Benchmark LSP8-8: Students will identify needed records and reports for livestock production enterprises.

Benchmark LSP8-9: Students will demonstrate good environmental stewardship with livestock production enterprises.

Unit LSP9: Marketing (9 hours)

Benchmark LSP9-1: Students will discuss the meaning and importance of marketing in livestock production enterprises.

Benchmark LSP9-2: Students will explain marketing opportunities for livestock and livestock products, including contract production and vertical integration.

Benchmark LSP9-3: Students will explain the meaning and importance of pre-conditioning livestock before marketing.

Unit LSP10: Agricultural education (7 hours)

Benchmark LSP10-1: Students will manage an appropriate supervised experience in livestock production.

Benchmark LSP10-2: Students will identify opportunities for participation and advancement in the FFA related to livestock production.

Note: Additional information on nutritional labeling, international marketing, and food safety is included in the Introduction to Food Science course.

Animal Science:  Animal Production Assistant - CTTC

Career Cluster Resources for Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Animal Science:  Animal Production Assistant – CTTC

 http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Agriculture_Career_Cluster.htm

PASS Skills for Science in Oklahoma

Animal Science - CIMC.
Agriculture Career Development: Animal Science - CIMC          Agricultural Business Management -  CIMC                                Supplemental VHS and DVDs - CIMC
www.okcimc.com

Animal, Plant, and Soil Science. Lesson Plan Library CD-ROM and on-line lesson plan library. 2007
www.caert.net

Modern Livestock and Poultry Production, 7th edition, Gillespie. Thomson, Delmar Learning. 2004.

www.delmarlearning.com