UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

FACULTY OF VETETINARY MEDICINE

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION
P.O. BOX 29053-00625, Telephone: 020-4916024
Nairobi, Email: aniprod@uonbi.ac.ke
Kenya.

Date _____________________
To whom it may concern

INSTITUTION/CLINIC
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Dear Sir/Madam

STUDENT FARM PRACTICE AND FIELD ATTACHMENT

NAME OF STUDENT: __________________________________

REGISTRATION NUMBER: _____________________________

The above-named person is a bona-fide First year Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) student in the
University of Nairobi.

The student is required to undertake a total of eight (8) weeks of farm practice and field attachment,
whose main aim is to expose the student to practical livestock husbandry practices in a farm set up
including but not limited to:

• Different species and breeds

• Animal handling
• Routine management practices e.g. feeding, breeding, milking, identification, disease control
• Farm records
• Pasture and fodder production and conservation

The purpose of this letter is to request that you kindly accept the student at your facility/institution for the
above-mentioned exercise from ___/____/______ to___/____/______

Thank you.

Dr. F.M. Kibegwa

Attachment coordinator,
Dept. of Animal Production

University of Nairobi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. BVM 1 attachment introduction letter