ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We, the course content developers for the course VMD-513: Pet/Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1), gratefully acknowledge the help and support rendered by

the Co-Teacher of this module, Dr.C.Balusamy, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Livestock Production Management,Veterinary College, Pookod-673576, and

the external peer reviewers - Dr.A.Kannan, Asso. Professor, Centre for Pig production & Research, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Trissur-680651 and Dr. T.Raghunandan, Asso. Professor, Dept. of Livestock Production Management, College of Veterinary, Rajendra nagar, Hyderabad - 500030

in perfecting the e-Contents and in fine tuning the e-Contents by providing inputs, texts, visuals, etc., respectively, deserve appreciation.

While every effort was made to quote the sources, references and other materials I have used in this e-Module, this e-resource being meant strictly for academic use by the student community and teaching fraternity of animal and veterinary sciences, I also thank all the other scientists and sources whose contributions I might have unwittingly infringed and to whom I might have failed to convey our acknowledgement and gratitude.

Dr.K.Sivakumar,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Livestock Production & Management,
Veterinary College & Research Institute,
Namakkal – 637 001.
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Dr.P.Thirunavukkarasu,
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Medicine
Madras Veterinary College
Chennai - 7.
[e-mail]