Regional Coaching Clinic
Date: Friday, March 28, 2014
Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
End Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Kahua Ranch (hosted by Kohala Mountain Farm Pumpkin Patch), 59-564 Kohala Mountain Rd between mile markers 11 and 12
Learn to breed, grow, and market standard-bred poultry. After you’ve secured your good breeding stock, now it is time to learn the secrets of breeding, incubating, and growing these wonderful breeds for the sake of a marketing profit! Spend these eight hours of ADVANCED education with poultry specialists from around the country.
Overview of Topics:
Practical Poultry Breeding: To become sustainable with your breeding program, you need to learn the basics of poultry breeding, both principles and practices. In this session we will look carefully at the proper culling and selection process of breed type, breed characteristics and color; for both old and young birds. We will look carefully at the importance of record keeping for fertility, hatchability, livability, egg production, trap nesting and rate of growth. We will look at various breeding systems and the implementation of pedigree breeding. Incubation, Brooding and Growing: Incubation is a lost art that is best learned by practicing. Our goal is to see you successfully hatching eggs from your breeding program, brooding with low percentages of mortality and growing productive poultry for both meat and eggs. We will walk through the basics and look closely at the challenges and complications of artificial incubation. We will also look at the challenges of keeping those little babies alive and maximizing proper growth rate. After this session, you can expect to increase your fertility hatchability and live-ability.
Registration / Fees: Earlybird registration: $49 per person by Friday, March 21. $69 per person after March 21.
Registration / Fees: Registration includes lunch and training notes. SPN members: $89 per person (spouse of the member attends for $39), non-members $109, at the door registration is $129 per person.
How to register: (The website for this past event is no longer available)
For more information contact: devin@centerforpoultry.com or call 209-890-5326.