ICAR NET 2024-2025 (ICAR NET 18. ANIMAL NUTRITION 2024)

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Master’s degree in Veterinary/ Animal Sciences with specialization in Animal Nutrition. 

Exam Pattern

    Particulars                            Details
1. Mode of ICAR ASRB NET     Online computer based 
2. Nature of the exam                Objective type
3. Maximum Marks                    150
4. Number of questions             150
5. Duration of exam                    02 hours
6. Marking Scheme                    One mark will be awarded for every correct answer
7. Negative Marking                   0.33 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.

Syllabus

Unit 1: Energy and Proteins:
Nutritional significance of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. Cell-wall fractionation. Available energy from organic nutrients. Partitioning of dietary energy. Basal metabolic rate. Energy retention. Factors affecting energy' utilization. Direct and indirect calorimetry. Dietary lipids - their c igestion, absorption and metabolism. Essential fatty acids. Effect of dietary fat on milk and body composition. Proteins - digestion, absorption and utilization. Com larative efficiency of amino acids as energy source. Essential and critical amino acids Protein evaluation. Metabolizable protein concept. Protein energy inter-relationship. Energetic of protein utilization for maintenance and different productive functions.

Unit 2: Minerals, Vitamins and Feed Additives Minerals:
Classification of minerals, Physiological functions, Deficiency symptoms and toxicity - Inter-relationships - Synergism and antagonism - Requirements - Different sources and bio-availability - Role of chelated minerals. Vitamins: Physiological functions and co-cnzyme role - Deficiency symptoms, hyper-vitaminosis. Requirements, Sources and vitamin analogues - Antivitamins - Feed Additives: Nutritional role. Probiotics - Probiotics, phytochemicals other metabolic modifiers. Role of phyto-chemicals as growth promoters.

Unit 3: Rumen eco-system and functions
Rumen and its environment. Development of functional rumen. Digestion kinetics in reticulo-rumen. Role of rumen microbes, Significance of rumen fungi- Defaunation and transfaunation. Microbial fermentation in rumen. VFA production, inter-conversion and utilization. Dietary protein breakdown. Microbial protein synthesis. NPN compounds ar d their utilization. Ammonia toxicity - Role of slow release urea compounds. Manipulation of rumen fermentation. Bio-hydrogenation and utilization of dietary lipids. Methanogenesis and methane inhibitors.

Unit 4: Non-ruminant Nutrition
Comparative gastrointestinal physiology of monogastrics - digestion and metabolism of organic nutrients ir poultry and swine. Significance of minerals and vitamins in mono-gastrics. Inter relationship in nutrient sparing activity. Feeding systems. Role of feed additives - Factors affecting nutritional quality and performance. Special nutritional needs of rabbits, horses and companion animals.

Unit 5: Nutrient Requirements
Energy protein requirements for maintenance and productivity in ruminants and non-ruminants. Colostrum feeding of calf, mineral and vitamin requirements. Dry matter intake in relation to productivity. DM: water intake ratio. Palatability. Nutritional intake and energy density. Feeding standards - NRC, ARC, Kearl and Indian. Nutrient requirements under temperate and tropical environment. Feeding strategies during stress and natural calamities - Ration formulation - least cost rations.

Unit 6: Forage Conservation and Evaluation
Natural and cultivated forges-Their composition and nutritive values. Nutritive value Index. Forage quality evaluation in range animals -Role of indicator methods-Advances in silage and haymaking- Factors affecting quality of conserved forages- Quality criteria and grading of silage and hay under tropics-artificial drying of forages.

Unit 7: Feed Processing and Technology
Methods of feed processing - physical, chemical and biological effect of processing on nutritional quality and utilization. Pelleted and extruded feeds. Quality control of raw feedstuffs and finished feeds: Significance of BIS (standards). Handling and storage of raw and finished feeds. Methods to improve shelf life of fat rich feeds, By-products of newly introduced commercial crops including residues of genetically modified feeds. Alternative feed resources. Current approaches in enriching tropical feed resources - concept of total mixed ration and advances in complete diet formulation.

Unit 8: Anti-metabolites and Toxic Principles
Naturally occurring anti-nutritional factors and common toxins in feeds and forages. Methods of detoxification. Health hazards due to residual pesticides in feeds and forages - Environmental pollutants.

Unit 9: Elements of Research Methodology
Principles of animal experimentation - Experimental designs in nutritional research. Modern methods of feed evaluation - In vitro, gas production and nylon bag techniques, Rumen simulation techniques - Rusitec Tracer techniques in nutrition research - Role of NIR Spectroscopy - Feed microscopy in quality evaluation of feedstuffs.

Unit 10: Clinical Nutrition
Role of nutrition to control digestive and metabolic disorders milk fever, ketosis, ruminal acidosis-laminitis, bloat), metabolic profile tests. Role of nutrition in immunity, nutrition and reproduction, nutrients as antioxidants. Role of nutrition in management of GI parasites.

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