Chicken:
Usually you start with Agriculture (Agrarwissenschaft) in
the Bachelor and specialize in your Masters in Animal Rearing (Tierezucht) or
Animal Nutrition (Tierenährung). Uni Osnabrück offers a course in “Poultry
Management” that takes between 4 to 6 semesters focusing in chicken, ducks and
turkey. Another course is the „Studienschwerpunkt angewandte
Geflügelwissenschaften“, abbreviated as „Stange“.
A possible
ausbildung is the Tierwirt Geflügel.
With a degree in this field, you can either work as a consultant
to farmers who rear poultry; work for huge slaughter houses or for companies
that breed and or process poultry products.
Horses:
The
Nürtingen-Geislingen Uni offers a bachelor in Pferdewirtschaft while Uni
Göttigen offers a Masters in Pferdewissenschaft. In BW, at the Bad Saarow
Fachhochschule, they do offer a Bachelor in Pferdekommunikationswissenschaften.
Jobs in this field range from working with horse riding
vereins or even working in tourist spots that offer horse riding as a sport.
Pigs:
One can
specialize in Pig farming at the following HU Berlin, TU München or at the Uniz
in Bonn, Rostock, Kiel, Kassel, Göttingen, Gießen, Hohenheim und
Halle-Wittenberg. Fachhochschules that offer this include: Weihenstephan,
Osnabrück or Kiel.
Currently the best jobs are working as a teacher in this
field. Uni Bonn and Uni Gießen do offer the course Tierwissenschaft plus a
minor in Education.
Cows:
Here you can specialize in Milchwirtschaft at the Uni
Hannover but no one offers a single degree based on cows.
Specializing in these fields can help one work in huge farms
or even work in research to try and find better feeds for the animals.
Fish:
„Marine Ökosystem- und
Fischereiwissenschaften“ at the Universität Hamburg. The Humboldt-Uni in
Berlin offers the english Masters in Fishery Science and Aquaculture.
Others:
Those interested
in wild animals can check out Universität Freiburg’s Masters in Forst- und
Umweltwissenschaften that includes a module in Wild Animal Management (Wildtiermanagement).
Wild animal ecology (Wildtierökologie) is also offered as part of a
Bachelor in Forest Management (Waldwirtschaft).
The Uni in Vienna offers a course in Animal therapy.
Unfortunately
there is no Uni that offers a course on rabbits.
