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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Chicken Behaviour & Welfare Promo Video
  • Rules of engagement (from Animal Behaviour & Welfare course)
Reading
  • Finding more information

Videos
  • What is behaviour?
  • What is a chicken?
  • Domestication
  • Prehatch and hatching
  • Imprinting
  • Other types of learning
  • Hormones and Behaviour
  • Motivation
  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Taste
  • Smell and Touch
  • Interview with Sarah Brocklehurst
Readings
  • What is a chicken? Some images
  • Smithsonian's How the chicken conquered the world.
  • Learning who is your mother
  • Exercise: how operant conditioning works
  • Article on vision
Practice Exercise
  • Domestication, Development and Learning, the Senses

Videos
  • Introduction To Maintenance Behaviours
  • Feeding Behaviour
  • History Of Feeding, Contrafreeloading
  • Motivation To Show Feeding Phases
  • Broiler Feeding Behaviour
  • Drinking Behaviour
  • Preening And Dustbathing
  • Perching
  • Stretching, Wing Flapping, Thermoregulation, Sleeping
  • Communication
  • Dominance Behaviour, Aggression, Bird-to-bird Pecking
  • Social Spacing
Readings
  • Article on feed choice in chickens
  • Drinking from a nipple drinker or dish
  • Distinction between preening, and oiling + preening
  • Aggression between males
Practice Exercise
  • Behaviour part 1

Videos
  • Introduction To Reproduction
  • Courtship
  • Mating Behaviour
  • Nesting and Laying Behaviour
  • Brooding Behaviour
  • Problems With Nesting And Laying Behaviour
  • Interview With Johnny - Breeding And Preparing For The Show Ring
  • Interview With Derek - Small-scale Commercial Broiler Incubation And Hatching
  • Feather Pecking And Cannibalism
  • Stereotypic Behaviours
  • Overdrinking (polydipsia)
  • Litter Eating
Readings
  • Transcript for interview with Johnny - Breeding and preparing for the show ring
  • Hens that go broody
  • How to assess developing embryos in eggs
  • Egg shell abnormalities
  • Egg eating
  • Different types of feather pecking
Practice Exercise
  • Behaviour part 2

Videos
  • Defining Welfare, and the Five Freedoms
  • Ethics and Poultry Production
  • Welfare Organisations and Accreditation Schemes
  • Effects of Stressors
  • Assessing Welfare: Behavioural and Physiological Measures
Readings
  • Ruth Harrison
  • Article on a 'good life' for hens
  • Welfare accreditation schemes
Practice Exercises
  • Welfare, ethics, welfare standards
  • A Life Worth Living Exercise (just for fun)

Videos
  • Egg Production: Furnished Cages
  • Egg Production: Free Range
  • Chicken (Broiler) Production
  • Interview With Barry: Is Free Range Always Best?
  • Introduction To Killing Sick Or Injured Stock
  • Methods Of Culling Poultry
  • How Do You Know A Bird Is Dead?
  • Introduction To Transport
  • Depopulation, Transport, And Lairage
  • Stunning And Slaughter
Readings
  • Laying hens: supplement to the Code of Practice
  • Article on welfare problems in meat chickens
  • Pullet rearing, pullet welfare issues
Practice Exercise
  • Housing, transport and slaughter

Instructors

Articles

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