Poultry Health Course

22 February – 4 March 2010

Institute for Animal Health, Compton, UK

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.

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. In 2006 the course was extended from an eight-day to a nine-day course to enable more topics to be included.

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.

Course Content

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. A full list of topics and their presenters is shown below. The course includes a visit to a poultry veterinary practice for further discussions and post mortem examinations.

The course will be held at the Institute for Animal Health, Compton, over 9 days, viz. Monday to Friday inclusive of the first week, and Monday to Thursday inclusive of the second, consecutive week, starting on 22 February. The registration fee for the non-residential 9-day course is £1,200/person inclusive of VAT, beverages and lunch, or single days at £280/person.

Accommodation

Accommodation is not included but can be reserved for you at The Chequers Hotel, Newbury, 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.

For further details contact Lynn Rutty at: IAH, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1635 578411; Fax: +44 (0)1635 577908

List of topics and lecturers

 
Lecturer and Organisation Topics

Dave Cavanagh, Lisa Rothwell
& Abu-Bakr Abu-Median

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
  • Mycoplasmas (2 lectures)

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

Kannan Ganapathy

University of Liverpool
  • Avian rhinotracheitis: diagnosis, control and prevention (2 lectures)

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

On behalf of Merial Animal Health/ Wyatt Poultry Veterinary Services
  • Vaccination strategies and application of vaccines
  • Workshop on vaccination strategies

Adrian Smith

University of Oxford
  • Immune system of the fowl, in the context of vaccination and encounters with pathogens (2 lectures)

Mark Fife

Institute for Animal Health
  • Genetics of resistance to disease and transgenics

Mark Stevens / Francis Dziva

Institute for Animal Health
  • Bacterial diseases

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

Institute for Animal Health
  • 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

David Parsons

(Veterinary Practitioner, Wincanton)
  • Visit to Veterinary Practice with David Parsons
  • ELISA testing of sera, and salmonella identification
  • Followed by practical basic anatomy and physiology, sampling and post-mortem techniques at his laboratory

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
  • Feed related problems

Prof Tom Humphrey

University of Bristol
  • Campylobacter

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?

Andrew Pearson

Health Protection Agency
  • Public health importance of salmonella, campylobacter and listeria

Grant Hayes

Veterinary Practitioner, Cambridgeshire
  • Commercial layers. epidemiology of disease - who can we blame?
  • Commercial layers. key diseases - major panics
  • Field incidence of problems - what we really see