Family Poultry Training Course: Trainees' Manual

From Poultry Hub

Written by David Farrell, the Family Poultry Training Course (Due late May 2009) comprises three manuals designed to help families and communities achieve sustainable, small-scale poultry production. The Trainers' Manual (for instructors) and Trainees' Manual complement each other and are designed for a commercial low biosecurity farm setting. A third manual, the Scavenging Chickens Training Handbook, caters specifically to backyard / village production.

Contents 1 Family Poultry Training Course: Trainees' Manual 1.1 Unit I 1.2 Unit II 1.3 Unit III 1.4 Unit IV 1.5 Unit V 1.6 Unit VI 2 Acknowledgments 3 See also

Family Poultry Training Course: Trainees' Manual

Purpose: to provide both women and men with sufficient information and knowledge to allow them to farm poultry in a commercial and semi-commercial way, and to decide if they can make money out of the venture.

Objectives: to learn about all aspects of raising poultry for their meat and eggs. Then to develop a business plan which will show them if they can make money out of a poultry farming enterprise operation in their country or region under the present conditions.

Course: there will be trainers who will guide the participants through all aspects of producing poultry. There will be ‘hands on’ practical work, visual demonstrations and a manual that will have diagrams, photographs and illustrations. Towards the end of the course, commercial poultry production will be dealt with in two specialised areas:

1. For meat (broiler) production
2. For egg production.

Unit I

• Introduction

Unit II

• Poultry Breeds

Unit III

• Brooding

Unit IV

• Commercial Broiler Meat Production

Unit V

• Commercial Egg Production

Unit VI

• Record Keeping and Conclusion
• Feasibility Study
• Budget
• Broiler Record Sheet
• Example of calculation for 100 broiler chickens to determine performance
• Layer Record Sheet

Acknowledgments

We thank the ATSE Crawford Fund for providing financial assistance to improve and upgrade the three manuals to make them suitable for Poultry Hub. We are grateful to UniQuest (The University of Queensland) who provided financial support in the early stages of producing these manuals. These manuals were written and produced by David Farrell with the technical assistance of Rider Perez-Maldonado and Bronwyn Powell, and illustrated by Shona Reed and Susan Powell. The conversion into an online format on Poultry Hub was overseen by the Poultry CRC.

See also

• General tips for small scale poultry production
• Anatomy of the Chicken Learning Resource
• A Simple Guide to Managing Village Poultry in South Africa
• Importance of small scale and semi-commercial poultry production in developing countries
• Sustainable Village Chicken Keeping for Pacific Island Communities
• Optimising liveability of free-range layers
• Poultry Agskills (book)
• Building the Poultry Penthouse (book)
• David Farrell
• Education and training