Progressive Poultry Training

Short Training Courses

Poultry House Environment

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.

Poultry House Environment Course
Thermal Stress Management
Poultry Litter Management
LPG Safety in the Poultry House Environment

Poultry House Environment Course (including thermal stress, litter management etc)
There is a requirement for an understanding of the practical management involved in maintaining an ideal environment for the bird conducive to it achieving maximum potential. An understanding of air flows in differing ventilation systems will be gained and all its various components and how this can be best achieved. Special attention is given to management measures for controlling heat stress in this course along with problem solving to achieve optimum litter conditions appropriate to promoting welfare. A must for any commercial poultry producer!

Thermal Stress Management
A half day modulised version of a portion of the above course, concentrating on the effects of hot and cold thermal stress factors; how these can affect birds and how they can be best managed in controlled environments through better management systems.

Poultry Litter Management
Poultry litter being the medium the bird spends most of its life on, needs to be maintained in a dry and friable condition, in order to promote good welfare and health. Specific measures are looked at in detail in this half day course to enhance management practices and the bird's environment. This is especially important to the bird's welfare and economic performance of the unit.

LPG Safety in the Poultry House Environment
This course gives an outline for those who need to maintain and understand their heating equipment. Giving a better understanding of the properties of LPG, along with safe use and maintenance of installed systems. Emergency actions and procedures and how regulators should be positioned and operated. Also course of actions for problem solving. Other modules for maintenance may be added on to this course specific to the particular models of equipment used.