27 February - 8 March 2012
Target audience
The Poultry Health Course is aimed towards technical staff, veterinary surgeons and others wishing to learn more about the management of poultry with respect to the nature, diagnosis and control of infectious diseases.
Course Content
The course will be held over 9 days (Monday to Friday inclusive of the first week, and Monday to Thursday inclusive of the second, consecutive, week) starting on 27 February.
The course continues to evolve to reflect the changing patterns of the poultry industry and the changing areas of veterinary and technical expertise within it. Approximately half of the lectures are given by specialist veterinarians who work in the poultry industry, while other lecturers are veterinarians and scientists involved in diagnosis and research.
The range of topics is extensive, including the structure and organisation of the poultry industry, health and other issues relating to the production of broilers, egg-laying flocks, turkeys, ducks and game birds; the major and emerging poultry diseases; pathogens of zoonotic importance; feed issues; control strategies, including the science behind them, with descriptions of the avian immune systems, and prospects for new vaccines.
The course also includes a visit to a poultry veterinary practice for further discussions and post mortem examinations.
A summary of the content for the 2012 course is shown below.
Registration fee
Full 9-day course (non-residential): £1,400/person (inclusive of VAT, refreshments and lunch)
Or
Single day: £320/person/day (inclusive of VAT, refreshments and lunch)
Course location
The Institute for Animal Health (IAH) is located in the heart of the Berkshire Downs, in Southern England, within easy travelling distance of London and Oxford, IAH is a world-leading centre for research into infectious disease of livestock.
Accommodation
Accommodation is not included but can be reserved for you at a Newbury hotel, if you wish. We will provide free transport between the Institute and Newbury in the morning and evening on each of the nine days of the course. Travel between Heathrow Airport and Compton or Newbury can also be arranged for an additional fee. For those attendees remaining in Newbury over the weekend in the middle of the course, Oxford, which is 46km away and Windsor, 64km, can be reached by bus/train. Trains to London can be reached from the railway station at Newbury, which is about 97km from London.
Further information
Please contact Lynn Rutty at: IAH, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1635 578411; Fax: +44 (0)1635 577263.
List of topics and lecturers - 2012
| Lecturer and Organisation |
Topics |
Sue Baigent
Institute for Animal Health |
- Molecular approaches to diagnosis e.g. the polymerase chain reaction, including looking at some of the equipment
|
Jane Cook
Huntingdon |
- Infectious bronchitis (including coli septicaemia) (2 lectures)
|
Daniel Todd
Agri-Food Biosciences Institute of Northern Ireland, Belfast |
- Diseases caused by chicken anaemia virus and other circoviruses
- Astroviruses of ducks, turkeys and chickens
|
Michael Hess
Clinic for Avian, Reptile and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria |
- Adenovirus diseases
- Histomonosis
|
Janet Bradbury
Liverpool University |
|
Dick Jones
Liverpool University |
- Reovirus infections and infectious avian encephalomyelitis
- Infectious laryngotracheitis and fowl pox
|
Richard Gough |
- Laboratory diagnosis of virus infections virus isolation
- Laboratory diagnosis of virus infections serological analysis
|
Charles Deeming
Hatchery Consultant, Lincolnshire |
- Hatchery practice (2 lectures)
|
Kannan Ganapathy
University of Liverpool |
- Avian rhinotracheitis: diagnosis, control and prevention (2 lectures)
- Infectious bursal disease virus
|
Michael Clark
The Minster Veterinary Practice, York |
- Duck industry and diseases (2 lectures)
|
Keith Warner
The Minster Veterinary Practice, Hereford |
- Turkey industry and turkey diseases (2 lectures)
- Biosecurity
|
Peter Cargill
Wyatt Poultry Veterinary Services |
- Vaccination strategies and application of vaccines
- Workshop on vaccination strategies
- Commercial layers. epidemiology of disease - who can we blame?
- Commercial layers. key diseases - major panics
|
Adrian Smith
University of Oxford |
- Immune system of the fowl, in the context of vaccination and encounters with pathogens (2 lectures)
|
Francis Dziva
Institute for Animal Health |
|
Barry Thorp
St Davids Poultry Team
Easter Bush Veterinary Centre
Roslin, Midlothian
|
- Trends and future trends in world broiler meat production and the influence of poultry breeders
- Skeletal diseases
|
Venugopal Nair
Institute for Animal Health |
- Marek’s disease and lymphoid leukosis
|
Damer Blake
Royal Veterinary College |
- Biology and control of coccidiosis (2 lectures)
|
Chris Davis
Game Conservancy Trust |
- Diseases of Game Birds (2 lectures)
|
Ian Brown
Veterinary Laboratories Agency |
- Newcastle disease
- Influenza virus (2 lectures)
|
David Parsons
Veterinary Practitioner, Wincanton |
- Visit to Veterinary Practice with David Parsons
- Sampling and post-mortem techniques
- Bacteriology - common poultry pathogens including salmonella identification
- Parasitology - coccidia and worms
|
Paul McMullin
Poultry Health Services, Thirsk |
- Management of broilers
- Broiler ascites and management of broiler breeders
- How to carry out a field investigation (2 lectures)
|
Steve Wilson/Andrew Fothergill
BOCM Pauls |
|
Prof Tom Humphrey
University of Liverpool |
- Campylobacter (2 lectures)
|
Paul Wigley
University of Liverpool |
- Infection biology of Salmonella in the chicken: How does science inform the control of avian salmonellosis now and in the future?
- Public Health importance of salmonella, campylobacter and listeria
|
Tim Wallis
(Ridgeway Biologicals) |
|
Grant Hayes
Veterinary Practitioner, Cambridgeshire |
- Field incidence of problems - what we really see
|