Game Bird Health and Welfare Foundation Course

Date: Wednesday 14th March, 2012 - Tuesday 14th February, 2012
Start time: 10:00 AM
Duration: 4 hour(s)
Cost: £25

Provider: South West Layers and Game Birds Initiative

Game Bird health and welfare Bio Security, disease and prevention, practical demonstration of dissection and anatomy, microscopes and gut parasites.

Speaker: Alan Beynon, St. Davids Poultry Team

For more information please contact rachel.watkins@duchy.ac.uk or the Rural Business School on 0845 4587485

Course Content:

• The Introductory course is looking at welfare of the Game Bird, defining welfare and how industry must be aware of the legislation and likely events in the future.

• Biosecurity basics should be introduced, how diseases are transmitted and the consequences of poor bio security at the vulnerable rearing phases and before release.

• Comparative anatomy amongst the Game Bird species, some physiology of the birds that make them prone to disease.

• Some basic disease outlines for the common problems encountered and their prevention e.g. cocci control and worming.

• The practical element should involve the instruction on euthanasia, dissection of a bird (any that are available) and microscopic investigation of parasites of the gut.

The Speakers

Speaker: Alan Beynon, St. Davids Poultry Team

The Venue

Nutwell Estate, Lympstone, Exmouth EX8 5AN