Edin - Chicken Behaviour and Welfare
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Chicken Behaviour and Welfare at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Chicken Behaviour and Welfare at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 10 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Chicken Behaviour and Welfare at Coursera Course details
- This course explains the general principles of chicken behaviour and welfare, and the behavioural and physiological indicators that can be used to assess welfare in chickens kept in hobby flocks through to commercial farms. The focus is primarily on laying hens and meat chickens (broilers) although many of the principles are relevant to other types of poultry. The course is likely to be of interest to people who own chickens as pets or keep a small hobby flock, commercial egg and chicken meat producers, veterinarians and vet nurses.
- Learning Objectives: at the end of this course, you will be able to -
- - Describe avian sensory perception and motivation
- - Explain the main behaviour patterns of poultry
- - Define welfare and explain the bases of welfare standards
- - Assess chicken welfare, using behavioural and physiological means
- - Understand common welfare problems of chickens
- This course is taught by staff from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), University of Glasgow, and St David's Poultry Team.
- You can follow us on Twitter! #chickenmooc
- © University of Edinburgh and Scotland's Rural College 2016 CC BY
Chicken Behaviour and Welfare at Coursera Curriculum
Getting Started
Chicken Behaviour & Welfare Promo Video
Rules of engagement (from Animal Behaviour & Welfare course)
Finding more information
What is behaviour?
What is a chicken?
Domestication
Prehatch and hatching
Imprinting
Other types of learning
Hormones and Behaviour
Motivation
Vision
Hearing
Taste
Smell and Touch
Interview with Sarah Brocklehurst
What is a chicken? Some images
Smithsonian's How the chicken conquered the world.
Learning who is your mother
Exercise: how operant conditioning works
Article on vision
Domestication, Development and Learning, the Senses
Behaviour Patterns of Chickens, Part 1
Introduction To Maintenance Behaviours
Feeding Behaviour
History Of Feeding, Contrafreeloading
Motivation To Show Feeding Phases
Broiler Feeding Behaviour
Drinking Behaviour
Preening And Dustbathing
Perching
Stretching, Wing Flapping, Thermoregulation, Sleeping
Communication
Dominance Behaviour, Aggression, Bird-to-bird Pecking
Social Spacing
Article on feed choice in chickens
Drinking from a nipple drinker or dish
Distinction between preening, and oiling + preening
Aggression between males
Behaviour part 1
Behaviour Patterns of Chickens, Part 2
Introduction To Reproduction
Courtship
Mating Behaviour
Nesting and Laying Behaviour
Brooding Behaviour
Problems With Nesting And Laying Behaviour
Interview With Johnny - Breeding And Preparing For The Show Ring
Interview With Derek - Small-scale Commercial Broiler Incubation And Hatching
Feather Pecking And Cannibalism
Stereotypic Behaviours
Overdrinking (polydipsia)
Litter Eating
Transcript for interview with Johnny - Breeding and preparing for the show ring
Hens that go broody
How to assess developing embryos in eggs
Egg shell abnormalities
Egg eating
Different types of feather pecking
Behaviour part 2
What is chicken welfare? Defining "welfare", ethical obligations, and welfare standards
Defining Welfare, and the Five Freedoms
Ethics and Poultry Production
Welfare Organisations and Accreditation Schemes
Effects of Stressors
Assessing Welfare: Behavioural and Physiological Measures
Ruth Harrison
Article on a 'good life' for hens
Welfare accreditation schemes
Welfare, ethics, welfare standards
A Life Worth Living Exercise (just for fun)
Effects of housing, transport and slaughter on bird welfare
Egg Production: Furnished Cages
Egg Production: Free Range
Chicken (Broiler) Production
Interview With Barry: Is Free Range Always Best?
Introduction To Killing Sick Or Injured Stock
Methods Of Culling Poultry
How Do You Know A Bird Is Dead?
Introduction To Transport
Depopulation, Transport, And Lairage
Stunning And Slaughter
Laying hens: supplement to the Code of Practice
Article on welfare problems in meat chickens
Pullet rearing, pullet welfare issues
Housing, transport and slaughter
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