Includes state and U.S.D.A. regulation for feed production and safety requirements. This course presents poultry marketing fundamentals and discusses the economics of interrelationships of competitive meats, merchandising techniques, advertising, and packaging. Students learn to manage breeder flocks and hatchery operations. The course presents egg handling and storage, hatchery sanitation, and waste control. Students learn the fundamentals of poultry nutrition and nutrient requirements for growth, maintenance, and reproduction.
Students use computers for least-cost feed formulation.
Students learn fundamentals of poultry processing from receiving to shipping, including designing and operating equipment, packaging, sanitizing, using labor, complying with state and federal regulations, grading poultry, and controlling quality. Students learn fundamentals of poultry health and disease through a detailed study of the major diseases affecting poultry. Opportunities are provided to pursue, under staff supervision, work experience in a specialized field of the poultry industry.