LPM

Learn proper litter removal and disinfection practices in poultry farms, including pathogen control, composting, disinfectants, and equipment sanitation.

Learn about dead bird disposal in poultry, including carcass disposal methods, biosecurity precautions, disease prevention, and environmentally safe disposal practices.

Learn poultry drinking water quality standards, desirable mineral levels, chlorine requirements, water sanitation methods, and guidelines to reduce waterborne infections.

Learn essential poultry management practices for disease prevention and control, including isolation, litter management, chick quality, nutrition, and water quality.

Learn the principles of poultry biosecurity, including conceptual, structural, and operational measures for preventing disease introduction and spread in poultry farms.

Learn how to judge broilers for meat production using a 100-point scorecard covering appearance, health, breast, back, legs, thighs, and feathering.

Learn about culling of layers and the key characteristics used to identify good and poor layers, including health, feathering, plumage, comb, abdomen, bones, skin, and vent.

Learn the key characteristics of good and poor birds used in poultry judging, including head, body, plumage, pigmentation, temperament, appetite, and other traits.

Learn poultry judging, including production and standard judging, layer evaluation, scorecards, health, body conformation, pigmentation, molting, comb, wattle, vent, and culling.

Learn the major selection methods in poultry breeding, including pedigree selection, recurrent reciprocal selection, tandem selection, independent culling, and selection index methods.

Learn selection in poultry, including natural and artificial selection, individual and family selection, progeny testing, within-family selection, collateral relatives, and combined selection methods.

Learn the different methods of mating in poultry, including pair, stud, pen, flock or mass mating, and artificial insemination, with their advantages and breeding practices.