Advanced Animal Husbandry
Dates
Available on application, please call for latest information Tel +44 (0)1952 815324
Prices
Prices: Course costs (£470.00) Tuition only
Fully residential accommodation is available if required at £55 per night. Lunch & beverages are available at only £16 per day
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This four-day course will benefit farmers, managers and advisers and help provide a practical understanding of livestock husbandry regimes, the risks of health and safety arising from those regimes, and the safeguards needing to be imnplemented
Benefits
As a results of this course participants will be able to:
- Outline the husbandry regimes involved in rearing cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and the production of milk, meat and eggs.
- Identify major zoonoses arising from agricultural livestock and recautions against infection.
- Identify the desireable features of facilities, equipment and systems of work used to house and handle various types of cattle.
- Describe the equipment and reduce manuel handling risks when sheep and sheared and foot trimmed and when beef cattle are handled and weighed.
- Identify the consideration required for ectoparasite control in sheep and the safeguards needed when dipping sheep.
- Describe the appropriate facilities and equipment for housing and handling pigs, including boars, and the health risk associated with their husbandry.
- Explain the health and safety risks arising from poultry and egg production.
- Have a practical understanding of livestock husbandry regimes, the risks to health and safety arising fropm those needing to be implemented.
Course Content
- Introduction to livestock systems
- Modern poultry and egg production
- Visits to livestock facilities
- Introduction to sheep husbandry and ectoparasite control
- Dairy cow condition scoring
- Health and safety risks relating to pig, sheep, poultry and cattle
- Zoonoses and agricultrual livestock
Contact Us
Emma Welch
Short Course Officer
Email: Click here to contact Emma Welch
Telephone: +44 (0)1952 815300
