Chicken Behaviour and Welfare

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Course details

Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Getting Started
    This brief module will tell you all the things you need to know to begin, including the syllabus of the course, who we are, how to engage with one another.
  • Week 1 - Introduction to Animal Behaviour: Domestication, Behaviour Development and Learning, the Senses
    Welcome to the first week of the Chicken Behaviour and Welfare Course. If you haven't seen it - watch the video which introduces you to the course: you can find it under "Getting Started; Welcome!" During this lesson, we will consider what makes a domestic an...
  • Week 2 - Behavior Patters of Chickens, Part 1
    During this week, we will consider some of the major behaviour patterns of chickens, such as maintenance behaviours of chickens, and social behaviours. Maintenance behaviours means feeding, drinking, and comfort activities. Comfort activities include preenin...
  • Week 3 - Behaviour Pattens of Chickens, Part 2
    Welcome back everyone! During this week, we will consider the reproduction process in chickens, from courtship to brooding and hatching of eggs. We will then look at some abnormal behaviours that you might see in chickens. This week will be a combination of...
  • Week 4 - What is chicken welfare? Defining "welfare", ethical obligations, and welfare standards
    During this week, we will consider what we mean by "animal welfare", and how a set of criteria known as the Five Freedoms can help you assess it. Dr Dorothy McKeegan from the University of Glasgow will discuss what the ethical obligations are of meeting an an...
  • Week 5 - Effects of housing, transport and slaughter on bird welfare
    This is the last week of the Chicken Behaviour and Welfare course, you are almost at the finish line... During this week, we will consider the welfare of layer hens and broiler (meat) chickens, from hatch to slaughter, particularly in common commercial system...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Dr Victoria Sandilands
Senior scientist
Avian Science Research Centre, SRUC

Editor

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