Poultry Breeding Course
This course provides hands-on training in developing efficient dual-purpose chicken breeds, focusing on health, welfare, and performance through genetic selection and practical breeding strategies.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
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 good health, welfare, and performance. You will learn to identify and assess key traits, utilise quantitative genetics and selection indexes, control inbreeding, and apply genomic tools. Delve into 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 goals: align traits with profitable farm markets.
- Measure key traits on-farm: eggs, growth, feed use, health and welfare data.
- Build multi-trait selection indexes: balance profit, robustness and welfare.
- Plan low-inbreeding mating schemes: structure flocks for fast genetic gain.
- Use farm data and genomic tools: run simple evaluations for better sires.
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