Sheep and goat Farming 2024-2025
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of sheep farming in modern farms. To learn how to maximize milk production and basic principles of balanced and efficient nutrition. To study basic principles of keeping a healthy herd.
Syllabus:
- Small Ruminants general information.
- Sheep & Goats Breeding.
- Small Ruminants farming, technology and management in Israel.
- Small Ruminants Nutrition under Intensive Management.
- Kids Rearing.
- Buildings and Equipment for Small Ruminants.
Marine and freshwater aquaculture 2024-2025
Course summary: in this course you
will learn basic practices in aquaculture, as well as latest innovations in the
field.
A main mission will be designing your own farm, based on principles that are
discussed in class.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to Aquaculture and Mariculture
- Short history of aquaculture
- Why do we need aquaculture?
- Different methods and growing systems
- Health and welfare and how to preserve it
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) – how to calculate and maintain it
- Principles in fish production
- Basic genetics
- Principles of larval rearing
- Fish lab – the fish from within (dissecting a fish)
- Innovations in aquaculture
- Environmental impact:
o How does aquaculture impact the environment?
o How does the environment affect aquaculture?
- Different solutions for environmental issues
Poultry Farming 2024 - 2025
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of poultry farming in modern farms. To learn how to maximize production and basic principles of nutrition and biosecurity.
Syllabus:
- Managing the Replacement Pullet: Body weight target, Preparing for the chicks, Temperature requirements for chicks, Light management for pullets, Cannibalism / Feather Pecking, Beak Trimming.
- Managing the Maturing and Mature Laying Hen: Breeds, Systems for keeping layers, Moving pullet to laying cages, Preparing for the pullets. Uniformity, Crowding layers in cages, Light management for layers, Egg shell quality, Egg Size, Dirty eggs, External parasites, Culling hens, Induced molting, Calculations of production index
- Biosecurity: Definition and Objectives, How Poultry Disease Spreads, Survival time of pathogens outside the host, SANITATION, ISOLATION, TRAFFIC CONTROL, Rodent biology & control, Wild birds, Barrier to Invaders, Beetles, Flies, Biosecurity procedures: Cost & Benefit
- Hot Climate Management: Thermoregulation in poultry, Behavioral adjustment, Thermoneutral Zone, The Thermal environment, Effect of exposure time to heat, Evaporative heat lose & Non Evaporative heat lose, passive thermoregulation & Active thermoregulation, Wind Chill effect, Reducing the sun Radiation, Insulation, Moisture buildup in poultry house, Ventilation, evaporative cooling pad