Poultry Breeding Course
Gain expertise in profitable poultry breeding for agribusiness success. Master defining target traits, enhancing health and welfare, designing effective mating and selection plans, leveraging data and genomics, and developing sustainable, high-performing dual-purpose chicken flocks ideal for small and medium-scale farms in Kenya.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips you with practical skills to create efficient dual-purpose chicken breeds focusing on health, welfare, and top performance. You'll learn to identify and assess vital traits, use quantitative genetics and selection indexes, control inbreeding, and apply genomic technologies. Dive into practical breeding programs, cost analysis, and tactics to boost productivity, resilience, and easy farm integration for Kenyan farmers.
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Develop skills
- Design dual-purpose breeding goals aligned with profitable farm markets.
- Measure key traits on-farm including eggs, growth, feed use, health and welfare data.
- Build multi-trait selection indexes balancing profit, robustness and welfare.
- Plan low-inbreeding mating schemes structuring flocks for fast genetic gain.
- Use farm data and genomic tools for simple evaluations to select better sires.
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