FACILITIES AND TEACHING OF LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SKILLS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KADUNA STATE

Abstract

This study evaluated the facilities for teaching livestock production skills in Colleges of Education in Kaduna state with the objectives to identify the available livestock production teaching facilities in the study area, determine the extent of utilization of the available facilities, skills available for the students in livestock production, and to ascertain problems associated with the teaching and learning of livestock production skills in colleges of education in Kaduna state. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study, and forty (40) respondents comprising of technologists and lecturers that are teaching animal husbandry courses constituted the population for this study. No sampling was done since the population was small and manageable. The instrument for data collection was checklist and questionnaire. Forty (40 copies of questionnaire were designed and administered to the respondents by the researcher for data collection. The data collected was analyzed using frequency, simple percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results revealed that only facilities for poultry production, ruminants, fishery, and rabbit production are available in the study area. All the available livestock training facilities are utilized. Also, the skills for poultry, fishery, rabbit and ruminant production are available for the students. Theft, Inadequate fund, feed shortage and large class size, were among the problems affecting the provision and utilization of facilities for teaching and learning of livestock production skills in the study area. It was therefore recommended that the Provision of adequate security, fund, supplying of adequate feed among others, will help to solve the identified problems for efficient service delivery in livestock unit in the study area.