|Message from the Dean|
Dear visitor, let me welcome you to the website of the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia. Here you can access information that will be helpful as you investigate where, when and how you would like to pursue your higher education in the various fields of Animal Health and Production. You can also browse through information as regards our curricula and the programs of study as well as our various research themes.
|Vet Medicine Centre Services|
Central supply and services comprises of three sections; the workshop, the stores and the animal accommodation. The animal accommodation comprises the experimental animal quarters, the infectious animal facilities, the animal quarantine and the paddocks. The experimental animal quarters is where one can find all the laboratory which include the mice, rats rabbits guinea pigs and chickens.
The quarantine besides being used as a screening and isolation area for sick and other animals before being taken into the paddocks is also an area which is being used as a milking parlour for the dairy animals.
The infectious animal facility is a research area where research programmes involving infectious animal diseases are conducted.
The paddocks are demarcations by means of barbed wire fences into 1.5 hectares each and are seven in number. This is grazing land for the dairy cattle, the sheep and the goats including the horses and donkeys. The paddocks also house the piggery unit, the animal spay race and the bore hole for the irrigation of the pastures during the dry season.
AIM: The main aim or purpose of the central supply and services is to support the four(4) teaching departments which are:
(1). PRODUCTION UNITS – For the teaching departments to have the teaching material available for the students, the animal accommodation section keeps animals on a production basis to produce offspring that can be used later in teaching and practical lessons. The teaching and practical material includes:
(2). EXTRA ACTIVITIES
Hay Production – The vibrant young men and women collect hay bales from Liempe farm after it has been cut and baled by the tractor. This hay is used to feed the ruminant animals as a supplementary feed in the dry season.
Crop Production – The young men and women are also engaged in crop production. This is to supplement the green vegetation to the animals for research and teaching such as the guinea pigs and the rabbits that require a constant supply of roughage in their diet. The crops include vegetables and maize.
Collection of Firewood – The young men and women are engaged in the collection of firewood from Liempe farm and the surrounding areas and also around the university grounds which the staff from the horticulture section cut down. The firewood is used to burn the dead material after the students from the four teaching departments have used it.