Poultry Breeding Course
This course provides hands-on training in poultry breeding, focusing on developing dual-purpose chicken breeds that enhance farm productivity and animal welfare through genetic selection and modern techniques.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Poultry Breeding Course equips you with practical tools to develop efficient dual-purpose chicken breeds that prioritise health, welfare, and performance. You will learn to identify and assess key traits, utilise quantitative genetics and selection indices, control inbreeding, and apply genomic technologies. Additionally, you will examine practical breeding programmes, cost assessments, and approaches that boost productivity, resilience, and suitability for local farms.
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Develop skills
- Design dual-purpose breeding objectives: match traits to viable farm markets.
- Assess key traits on the farm: production of eggs, growth rates, feed efficiency, health and welfare indicators.
- Develop multi-trait selection indices: integrate profitability, hardiness and animal welfare.
- Organise mating systems with minimal inbreeding: arrange flocks to accelerate genetic progress.
- Apply farm records and genomic methods: conduct basic assessments to select superior breeding stock.
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