Bypass successfully this course, the student should be able to:
a. knowledge and understanding:
- Review the reproductive organs and some concepts of reproduction, the history of hatching and its different types.
- Determine the design of the modern hatching building and the factors affecting the hatching rate and the quality of the hatched chicks before and during the hatching process.
- Explain the embryonic development inside the egg and the reasons for the death of embryos in fertilized eggs.
- Explain how to treat hatching chicks, the concept of biosecurity, and methods of using disinfectants.
- Demonstrate scientific methods for hatching fertilized eggs in different poultry birds.
b. Mental c skills:
- Connect concepts and different reproductive, behavioral and environmental factors and their relationship to the process of hatching and its different types.
- Summarize the types of hatching machines as well as the factors affecting the hatching rate and the quality of the hatched chicks before and during the hatching process.
- Discuss the stages of embryonic development and the causes of embryo death at different stages of incubation.
- Discuss the importance of following biosecurity concepts and sterilizing hatchery buildings and barns during the incubation stages and after hatching and chick transportation.
- Compare the most important differences in the process of hatching eggs of different poultry birds.
c. Practical & professional skills:
- Combine the different factors related to hatching and the types of hatching used in breeding farms.
- Apply the important conditions and factors in the success of the industrial hatching process.
- Diagnose the most important causes of low hatching rate and embryo mortality in fertilized eggs.
- Apply the biosecurity standards at all stages of hatching, from the beginning of incubation until the process of transferring chicks to the breeding buildings.
- Practice the scientific principles and foundations used in hatching the eggs of various farm birds.
d. Generic and transferable skills:
- Adheres to time.
- Adheres to university student ethics.
- Uses modern scientific tools and media
- Communicates with colleagues.
- Solve the problems you face in cooperation with others.
