Poultry - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Poultry Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

A Certificate course where you’ll learn to successfully manage your poultry either for commercial or domestic purposes. This home study course will teach you to manage poultry on a small or large scale, and for production of eggs, meat or young birds.

You will become skilled in all aspects of poultry care and management, including: terminology, breeds, nutrition, disease, layers, broilers, incubation, brooding, record-keeping, economics and marketing. This Certificate course is relevant to free range or other forms of production and may be studied for commercial or domestic purposes. If your goal is to enter the poultry industry or to start your own commercial poultry business or simply to learn more about poultry as a hobby, this Certificate course will equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills needed for these purposes.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure:

1. Introduction, Terminology and Breeds

• History of Poultry
• Terminology
• Contract Growing
• Regulations
• Management Factors
• Small Scale Production
• Breeds
• Classifying Fowls (Egg Laying Breeds, Meat or Table Birds, Dual Purpose Breeds)
• Cross Breed Poultry
• Sex Linkage
• Brooders
• Skeletal System
• Poultry Husbandry (Stock Selection, Feeding, Watering, Housing, Health)
• Turkeys
• Geese
• Ducks

2 Poultry Nutrition

• Digestive System (Gullet, Crop, Proventriculus, Gizzard, Intestine, Caecum, etc)
• Nutrient Sources (Carbohydrate, Protein, Minerals etc)
• Rationing
• Palatability
• The End Product
• Modern Feed Requirements
• Phase Feeding
• Limited Feeding
• Consumption Feeding

3 Diseases

• Avoiding Stress
• Viral diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Mycoplasmosis, fungal and protozoan disease
• Non-infectious diseases

4 Layers

• Extensive (free-range) System
• Semi-Intensive System
• Intensive Systems
• Housing
• Deep Litter System
• Feeders
• Battery Units
• Feeding the Laying Hen
• Replacing the Flock

5 Broilers

• Caponising
• Brooding Period
• Feeding Broilers (Starter Period, Finisher Period)
• Housing
• Hygeine and Health

6 Incubation

• The natural method (using broody hens)
• The artificial method (using incubators)
• Selecting Eggs
• Storing Hatching Eggs
• Turning Eggs
• Managing a Incubator (Temperature, Humidity, Testing, Hatching)
• Reasons for Poor Hatchability

7 Brooding

• Heating
• The canopy brooder
• The infra-red lamp
• The battery brooder
• The haybox brooder
• Feeders
• Drinkers
• Floor Space
• Rearing
• Problems during rearing

8 Record Keeping, economics and Marketing

• Growth Records
• Egg Production records
• Small Scale Business
• Compatible Ventures (Manure, etc)
• Preparing a Farm Business plan
• Finance
• Land Management
• Analyzing the Market place
• Developing a Marketing Plan

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Agriculturalists, Farmers, Animal Breeders

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

ADL has helped thousands of people develop their farming and agricultural knowledge and skills. This course is perfect if you're aspiring to become a farmer or if you'd like to further develop your career in farming.