Department of Breeding & Genetics

Breeding & Genetics

What this department covers

Improving the animals themselves, generation by generation.

• Selection and genetic improvement programmes
• Indigenous breed characterisation and conservation
• Quantitative genetics and breeding value estimation
• MPhil study in animal breeding and genetics

Teaching here is tied to the university's working facilities — the veterinary teaching hospital, the Central Diagnostic Laboratory and six livestock teaching and research centres — so students meet real cases and real production records rather than worked examples.