Dates

Dates on Application

Prices

Course costs: £260.00 (tuition only)

Fully residential campus accommodation: £55 per night. Lunch & beverages are available at only £16 per day

Useful Information

This course will include visits to the livestock unit at Harper Adams.

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This two-day course will provide a background of the basic principals of livestock production and husbandry. It will benefit agricultural sales and adminstration staff, and those wishing to gain knowledge of the agricultural livestock industry.

Benefits

As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

• Appraise the structure of the animal production
• Identify the main systems of management employed in livestock production in the UK and the predominat livestock breeds
• Outline the husbandry regimes involved in rearing cattle, sheep, pigs poultry and the production of milk, meat and eggs.
• Describe some of the major diseases arising from agricultural livestock
• Relate the requirements of farm animals to building design, equipment and housing systems employed.
• Describe the appropriate facilities and equipment for handling livestock.
• Appriaise specified enterprises for both physical and financial performance.

Course content

The size and structure of the farm livestock industries in the UK: trends in cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry numbers, production and consumption.

Dairy: The production cycle of the dairy cow; summer grazing managemetn; winter feeding straetgies; housing systems and wlefare considerations; milk marketing and milk pricing; breeding and herd improvement.

Beef: Calf rearing; importance of breed and sex on choice of production system; indoor and extensive production systems; sucked calf production; performance targets; marketing and carcass classification.

Sheep: Sheep industry stratification; the sheep production cycle; hill, upland and lowland production; nutrition and health;lamb finishing ans selection of lambs for the market; physical and financial appraisal of sheep systems.

Pigs: Breeding and breeding programmes; mating and farrowing management; weaning systems and grower and finishing programmes; performance criteria and slaugher; indoor and outdoor pig production; welfare issues and quality assurance.

Poultry: Establishment and development of poultry keeping in the UK; eggs and broiler management and production; egg quality measurement; environmental considerations and requiremens for indoor and free range systems.

Contact Us

Emma Welch
Short Course Officer
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Telephone: +44 (0)1952 815300