Training and Certification WVEPAH Program: Broilers II in Botswana

Training location: Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources BUAN
(formerly Botswana College of Agriculture), Agric Education and Extension Resource Centre, Gaborone, Botswana

Dates: 03 -14 December, 2018

OVERVIEW

This Broiler chickens “Specialized” course is an overview of important infectious and non-infectious diseases at different stages of breeder and broiler production. The objective of the WVEPAH education program is to offer a highly specialized training on all specific aspects of broilers (meat chickens) health; pathology, epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, immunology, management, etc., in a format usable in your daily practice.

This course will be held in English by a team of world-class Course Masters. Among them: Moncef Bouzouaia (TN), Robert Gauthier (CA), Neil Duncan (ZA) , Peter Plumstead (ZA), Mohamed Hafez (DE), Stephane Lemiere (FR), Daniel Venne (CA) and Hilde vanMeirhaeghe (BE).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Know how to evaluate the birds’ microenvironment in relation to flock health and welfare.
Gain advanced knowledge relating to mechanisms of disease causation for infectious and non-infectious diseases
Recognize normal poultry tissues and recognize abnormal poultry tissues, characterize lesions, and interpret their significance.
Understand modern diagnostic technologies including both field and laboratory diagnostics.
Plan a logical diagnostic approach to the investigation of disease (including the identification of risk and causative factors of poultry diseases).
Collect appropriate diagnostic samples and perform relevant diagnostic tests for disease investigation.
Know how to interpret diagnostic results
Develop preventive medicine protocols, including biosecurity, coccidiosis, and vaccination
Apply the judicious use of antibiotic therapy
Know supportive and alternative forms of treatment against pathogens

STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE

The training is done by professionals for professionals, it is a problem solving approach favoring exchanges on true clinical cases suggested by Course Masters and participants with a part of practical work (wet lab). The formal academic part of the training already known from other sources is intentionally limited but available in course notes or suggested readings.

FURTHER QUALIFICATION

Participants who complete the Module I “Key disciplines in poultry health” including the regulatory aspects taught by representatives of the OIE and a Module “Specialized” could obtain the academic diploma “Certificate in Animal Health: Poultry Production” awarded by the University of Luxemburg and whose regulatory aspects are validated worldwide by the OIE. The WVEPAH participants will join the international community of experts in Avian Health and Production.

Further information available through info@wvepah.org or at www.wvepah.org

REGISTRATION

Tuition fee: 2.500,00 USD or 2.000,00 EUR

Manual Registration