CENTRE FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION STUDIES

This unit has Indigenous Cattle, Gir, Jersey and Holstein cross bred cows and graded Murrah buffaloes. Milk produced from this unit is being sent to dairy plant of Madras veterinary college. Dung and manure generated from this unit is used as manure for fodder production and the surplus manure in sold to needy farmers.

This unit maintains different sheep breeds like Madras Red, Mecheri, Trichy Black, Coimbatore, Sandyno, Ramnad White, Vembur, Kilakarasal, Katchakatti, Chevvadu, Dorset x Nilagiri, Nilagiri and Garole as display for instructional Purpose. In addition a flock of Nellore sheep is maintained as a breeding flock.

This unit maintains different goat breeds like Barbari, Tellicherry, Jamunapari, Sirohi, Beetal, Osmanabadi, Salem black, Boer and Kanni adu as display for instructional Purpose. In addition, a Tellicherry goat breeding unit with about 100 goats is also available for research, breeding and fattening sales.

This unit maintains Large White Yorkshire pigs for instructional, research, breeding and fattening purpose.

This unit maintains Soviet Chinchilla rabbit breed for instructional, research, breeding and fattening purpose.

This unit was established to create awareness among general public regarding indigenous dog breeds like Rajapalayam, Chippiparai, Kanni and Kombai to impart hands on training on breeding management of dogs to Undergraduate veterinary students.

Animal Science Park has been created to bring awareness among the school children about the different species of animals, birds, reptiles and fishes. This unit consists of different species of pet birds such as Cockatiel, Budgerigar, Finches, Fan tail pigeon, Grey pigeon, Owl shading pigeon, Belgium Colour Pigeon, King bird and Beauty Homer pigeons.; Poultry breeds like Aseel, Cochin bantam, Frizzle, Kadaknath, Nicobari Black, English bantham, Australorp, Japanese bantham, Nacked neck Chicken; Ratite birds such as Ostrich and Emu. An aquarium with species like Angle fish, Chichlid fish, Flowerhorn fish, Cat fish, Arowana fish, Alligator gar and Red eared green turtle is also maintained.

This unit is producing quality green fodder for livestock at LFC. In addition to the above, green fodder, fodder slips and fodder seeds are sold to Livestock farmers and other stake holders.

Small farm implements are being designed and fabricated at this unit. The flagship instrument of this unit is low cost hydroponic device. Nearly 100 different instruments have been designed and fabricated for needy livestock farmers at affordable price. This unit is ready to collaborate with other institutions to design and fabricate equipments for various livestock enterprises.

CLUE was started to take care of the needs of livestock farmers and entrepreneurs. This unit serves as a sale counter for the products of LFC. Some of the produce include University educational books, CDs, mineral mixture, salt lick, green fodder, UIIC farm equipments / devices, vermicompost and livestock species like goat and chicken.

In addition to the above the following courses are being offered to livestock farmers and farm entrepreneurs: