AFNS 571
Applied Poultry Science
Fall 2020
Topics
- Introduction & expectations
- Industry overview
- Animal care training (mandatory)
- Genetics and broiler breeding
- Incubation, hatching, brooding
- Broiler industry issues
- Broilers
- Broiler production
- Turkey industry issues
- Turkey production
- Manipulating the environment
- Nutrition
- Feed additives
- Modeling growth and development
- Modeling
- Poultry reproduction
- Broiler breeders
- Hatching Egg production
- Layer industry issues
- Layers
Readings
- Scanes, C. G., and K. D. Christensen. 2019. Poultry science. Fifth ed. Waveland Press, Inc., Long
- Grove, Illinois, USA
Fall 2015
Topics
- Introduction and expectations
- Industry overview
- Brooding
- Broilers
- Breeding and Genetics
- Broiler breeders
- Poultry gynecology
- Reproduction - Lighting
- Incubation and hatching
- Egg layers
- Modeling growth and development
- PSIW BREAK - Project time
- Nutrition
- Turkeys
- Worker health
- Supply Management
- Metabolic disorders
- Housing and Equipment
- Poultry behaviour and welfare
- To become fluent in Canadian poultry industry issues
Readings
- Poultry Science. 2004. C. G. Scanes, G. Brant, and M. E. Ensminger. Pearson Prentice Hall (SF 487 E59 2004)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2013-Fall-AFNS-571-LECTURE-A1 ↗2013
- 2015-Fall-AFNS-571-LECTURE-A1 ↗2015
- 2020-Fall-AN-SC-471-LECTURE-A1 ↗2020
- 2020-Fall-AFNS-571-LECTURE-A1 ↗2020
- No textbook required according to this source. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
- No textbook required according to this source. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.