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Short Training Courses
Hatchery Courses
The courses identified below are just a selection of the total range of available short courses. All instructors and assessors are professional experts in their fields and courses may be delivered in venues of the employer's choice or where required. |
In addition to the welfare course, a series of short courses suitable to be run as a sequence of modulised courses are by selecting particular stand alone modules. Each course can be specifically tailored to its audience.
1. Handling & Storage of Hatching Eggs
2. Setter Operation
3. Hatcher Operation
4. Chick Processing
5. Solving Hatchability Problems
6. Hatchery Welfare
1. Handling & Storage of
Hatching Eggs 
For: Managers, assistance managers,
charge hands and egg room supervisors
This course covers the basic structure
of the fertile egg; the methods and importance of egg collection, including
nest box hygiene; egg selection, egg utilisation and relationship to hatchability
and chick quality; clean egg production and sanitisation methods, together
with appropriate storage
2. Setter Operation
For: Managers, assistant managers, charge hands and
incubationists
An understanding will be gained on the main functions
of a setter, the types of setter (single and multi-stage); the maintenance
of temperature and humidity; importance of gas concentration; turning and
embryonic development; planned preventative maintenance.
3. Hatcher Operation
For; Managers, assistant managers, charge hands and incubationists
The
objectives of this course includes gaining an understanding of the main functions
of a hatcher, physiological changes in the egg leading up to hatching; monitoring
and controlling the hatcher, controls and alarms, the importance of cleaning
an hygiene and planned preventative maintenance
4. Chick Processing
For; Managers, assistant managers, chick room supervisors
and vaccinators
This course covers the areas concerned with chick take-off
and holding pre-processing; recognising first quality chicks; vaccination – storage,
preparation and administration of vaccine; disposal of culls and debris
in a humane manner; packing, holding and transportation of chicks.
5. Solving Hatchability Problems
For; Managers, assistant managers, charge
hands and laboratory technicians
A methodical approach to problem solving
should be implemented in order to track patterns of embryonic mortality.
This should be done through accurate historical information and sampling,
examining unhatched eggs and recognising the most common of lesions, in
order to summarise data and draw conclusions
6. Hatchery Welfare
For all employees involved with the welfare of the chick,
a broad outline of the general codes for welfare
Chick Health & Management Including Risk Assessment
Improving Hatchery Production
Course
Alternatively, a 3 day residential course
for hatchery managers, their assistants and charge hands has been developed
with the objective to improve their output figures in terms of production
and finance. This course will enable the delegates to assess their present
methods of handling eggs and chicks and develop improvements where appropriate.
Also to improve the operation of hatchery equipment, reduce production difficulties
and minimise the transmission of egg borne disease to improve chick health
and welfare. This will also include a health and safety risk assessment review.
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