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SCHOOL………………………………………………………CANDIDATE’S SIGN…………

FORM………………………………………………………… DATE…………………………
443/2
AGRICULTURE
MARCH – APRIL 2025
TIME: 2 HOURS

CEKENAS END TERM ONE EXAM-2025

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
FORM FOUR
443/2
AGRICULTURE
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name, class, admission numbers and school in the spaces provided
2. Sign and write the date of examination in space provided
3. This paper consists of three sections A, B and C (90 marks)
4. Answer all questions in section A and B
5. Answer any TWO questions in section C
6. All answers should be written in English
7. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated
FOR EXAMINERS USE ONLY
SECTION QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATE SCORE
A 1 – 16b 30 MARKS
B 17-20 20 MARKS
C 21-23 40 MARKS
TOTAL SCORE 90 MARKS
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 SECTION A (30 MARKS)
1. State four reasons for maintaining farm tools and equipment (2mks)
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2. Name four diseases of poultry that are controlled by vaccination (2mks)

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3. Name four breeds of dairy goats (2 mks)

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4. Give four ways of stimulating milk let down in a dairy cow (2mks)
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5. Give four ways in which disease causing organisms can gain access into a newly born calf
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6. State four reasons for dehorning cattle (2mks)
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7. State four factors that would determine the amount of concentrate fed to dairy cattle
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8. List four types of pig pens (2mks)
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9. Name three methods of service used in cattle (1 ½ mks)
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10. State four conditions that would encourage hens to eat eggs in poultry production
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11. List three types of calf pens (1 ½ mks)
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12. Name four systems of a tractor engine (2mks)

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13. Give four ingredients of artificial colostrums (2mks)

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14. Give four materials collected by bees (2mks)
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15. Give four effects of external parasites that are harmful to livestock (2mks)
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16. (a) Identify the sheep breed with the following characteristics (a) has white in colour
with a black head, polled, fat tail and hardy (½ mk)

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(b) Has white colour with black muzzle and ears, polled and 125% lambing percentage

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 SECTION B (20 MARKS)
17. Below are diagrams of certain parasites. Study them carefully and answer the questions
that follow

a) Identify parasite C, D and E (3mks)

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b) Put the parasites above in their respective categories (2mks)
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18. Study the diagrams of workshop tools shown below

i) Identify the tools labelled E and F (2 mk)

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ii) What functional advantage does tool F (1 mk)

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iii) List three maintenance practices of the above tools (2 mks)
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19. The diagram below illustrates a hoof of a sheep. Study it carefully and answer the
questions that following

a) Name the routine management practice that should be carried out on the hoof
illustrated above (1mk)
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b) State three reasons for carrying out the management practice in (a) above (3mks)
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c) List a tool used to carry out the practice on the above hoof (1 mk)
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20. The diagrams labelled A and B below illustrate two different milking techniques. Study
them and answer the questions that follow

a) Identify the appropriate technique in (a) above (1mk)

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b) Describe the procedure of milking technique in (a) above (2mks)

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c) State two disadvantages of using a wrong milking technique (2mks)

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 SECTION C (40 MARKS)
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided
21. a) Outline five disease predisposing factors in livestock (5mks)
b) Explain five importance of a hedge in a farm (5mks)
c) Describe the operations of the following strokes in a petrol engine (10mks)
22. a) Discuss pneumonia in calves under the following sub-headings
i) Predisposing factors (2mks)
ii) Symptoms (5mks)
iii) Control measures (3mks)
b) Describe the artificial rearing of a layer chick from one day old up to end of
brooding (10mks)
23. a) Describe the process of egg formation in the reproduction system of hen (10mks)
b) Describe the process of digestion in the following sections in the alimentary canal
of a ruminant animal
i) Rumen (5mks)

ii) Small intestines (5mks)

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