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ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ ਦੇਵ ਵੈਟਨਰੀ ਐਂਡ ਐਨੀਮਲ ਸਾਇੰਸਜ਼ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary And Animal Sciences University

ADMISSION 2019-20
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College of Veterinary Science

Animal Genetics and Breeding
ANIMAL-GENETICS-AND-BREEDING
  • Dairy cattle and buffalo breeding farm having herd strength of 288 Murrah buffaloes and 160 Holstein- Friesian crossbred cattle and 35 Nili-Ravi Buffaloes.
  • Poultry breeding research farm for the improvement of broilers, layers and quails with facilities for housing of 3000 layers, 10000 broilers and 12000 quails.
  • Housing facilities in 23 sheds including 20 sheds for adult females including lactating stock (with evaporative cooling system) and heifers, 3 bull sheds, one calf shed with individual calf pens, 2 milking parlours, feed store, semen freezing and embryo transfer laboratories.
  • Modern machine milking parlour for milking of 12 animals with electronic recording, milk sampling, pipeline milk collection and bulk milk cooling tanks.
  • Feed store with facilities of feed grinding and mixing.
  • Semen freezing laboratory with automatic semen straw printing and filling machines.
  • Embryo transfer laboratory having the facilities of embryo flushing, evaluation, freezing and ultrasound scanning.
  • Biogas plant generating electricity by 50 Kva genset operated on biogas produced from two biogas planst of 90 m3 capacity each.
  • Brooding, rearing and housing facilities in 11 sheds include three brooder- two rearing- and five laying- houses which are sufficient for 7000-8000 birds.
  • Hatching facilities include four setters (55500 eggs), four hatchers (22,500 eggs) and an egg storage room (20,000 eggs)
  • A dressing laboratory and poultry sale outlet.
  • Network of 21 rural AI Centres in about 80 villages with 13200 cattle and 16800 buffalo population with infrastructure for field progeny testing of bulls and field evaluation of animal production technologies
  • The Department has a well-equipped Molecular Genetics Laboratory for conducting research in molecular genetics.