Module II : Broilers and Breeders

Early Bird Registration Fee

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Until July 29th

Early Bird Registration Fee 〰️ Until July 29th

Hybrid program

Online part

July 5th to January 15th, 2025

  • This course is dedicated to French-speaking professionals in poultry farming who wish to enhance their knowledge and expertise in areas such as pathology, nutrition, biosafety, and animal welfare. Upon completion of the course, they will be able to apply best practices in their daily routines.

    The course provides an overview of infectious and non-infectious diseases significant at various stages of the chicken/breeder production process. Participants will receive training to diagnose and address major pathologies.

    The course consists of:

    • An online component, comprising pre-recorded lectures by various internationally renowned professors. These videos will be available starting July 5th, 2024. Participants will have the opportunity to learn at their own pace and retain access to the content even after the course ends.

    • An in-person component to be held in Dakar, Senegal. During this week, practical work, analysis of clinical cases, and industrial visits will be highlighted. Interaction between participants and teachers is encouraged.

    A final online exam in the first week of December 2024.

  • Early Bird Registration : Take advantage of our special offer of 2350 EUR (regular price 2500 EUR) by registering and completing payment before July 29th, 2025.

    WPSA and WVPA professionals members will be able to obtain a discount of 100 EUR upon course registration by presenting proof of their membership.

    The fee for each course includes access to the online course materials (available for 7 years), the exam administered by Université de Montréal, and membership in the private Facebook group. It also covers dinners and two coffee breaks per day during the residential week. Please note that the fee does not include accommodation, transportation, health insurance, or travel visa costs.

  • French.

Residential part

September 29 to October 3, 2025
Dakar, Senegal

In EISMV University, Dakar, Senegal

  • 7,5 hours

    • Biochemistry of Poultry

    • Metabolic Diseases

    • Musculoskeletal Diseases

    • Heat Stress

    • Clinical Case Discussion

    • Clinical Case Presentation (Participants)

  • 7,5 hours

    • Hatching Eggs and Hatchery Management

    • Mineral and Vitamin Deficiencies

    • Clinical Case Discussion

    • Nutrition

    • Clinical Case Presentation (Participants)

  • 6 hours

    • Field visit

  • 7,5 hours

    • Avian Influenza – Update

    • "One Health" Approach in Poultry Farming

    • Clinical Case Discussions

    • Clinical Case Presentation (Participants)

  • 5,5 hours

    • Principles of Developing Vaccination Programs for Breeders and Broilers

    • Clinical Case Discussion

    • Vaccination Against Avian Influenza

    • Clinical Case Presentation

    • Program Evaluation and Next Steps

Daily Program

  • 2 hours

    • Neoplastic diseases of chickens (description and differential diagnosis)

  • 3 hours

    • Medications, feed additives, antibiotic-free production

    • Poisoning by medications and mycotoxins

  • 9 hours

    • Salmonellosis in chickens and breeders, typhoid and paratyphoid

    • Public health, the case of salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis

    • Public health, other zoonoses (chlamydiosis, tuberculosis, erysipelas (Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae))

    • Avian influenza

    • Newcastle disease

  • 1 hour

    • The use of slaughter and seizure data

  • 3 hours

    • General parasitology

    • Revision of the life cycles of the main internal and external parasites of poultry and diagnostic techniques (helminths, cestodes, protozoa with emphasis on coccidia).

  • 9,5 hours

    • Meat chicken production in the world

    • Genetic selection, evolution and how to reach the full production potential

    • The importance of management guides

    • The impact of breeders on chick quality

    • The placing of chicks, the importance of the first 7 days

    • Aspergillosis, omphalitis (pseudomonas), E. coli infections, gangrenous dermatitis, cellulitis (IP), keratoconjunctivitis

    • The most frequent diseases of breeder hens and males (staphylococcosiss, enteroccocus, hepatitis E, calcium tetany, cloacitis, feather pecking, ovary and oviduct lesions)

    • Myopathies in broilers

  • 7 hours of subject

    • Poultry vaccines, viral and bacterial, classical and vectorized recombinant

    • Introduction to m-RNA vaccines

    • Diseases prevented by vaccination, vaccination programs under varied situations (breeders and broilers)

    • Update on Marek’s disease vaccination

    • Vaccination monitoring and interpretation

  • 5,5 hours

    • Viral diseases of chickens (Gumboro, infectious anemia, inclusion body hepatitis, astrovirus (white chick syndrome), reoviruses, avian pox, avian encephalomyelitis)

    • Intestinal diseases of chickens (necrotic enteritis, candidiasis, viral enteritis, dysbacteriosis and non-specific enteritis, gizzard erosion, proventriculitis)

  • 4,5 hours

    • Review of basic principles in poultry nutrition

    • Nutrition of breeding hens and roosters and broiler chickens (requirements, recommendations, and feeding programs)

    • Nutrition of slow-growing chickens

  • 11,5 hours

    • Principles of intestinal health in chickens, definition and evaluation methods

    • Parasitic diseases (internal and external) in chickens and breeders, diagnosis and control methods (emphasis on coccidiosis) and mites

    • Respiratory diseases in chickens and breeders (pasteurellosis, coryza, infectious bronchitis, metapneumovirus (TRT), infectious laryngotracheitis, ORT)

    • Mycoplasmosis Animal welfare in industrial poultry production

    • How to conduct effective bibliographic research online

  • 10,5 hours

    • Clinical biochemistry in poultry, brief revision of basic principles

    • Metabolic and physiological poultry diseases, diagnostic methods (hypoglycemia, bone diseases, effects of feed composition, electrolyte balance, ascites, sudden death syndrome)

    • Skeletal diseases (rickets, tibial dyschondoplasia, chondrodystrophy, plantar dermatitis, bacterial chondronecrosis and osteomyelitis (BCO), femur head necrosis, tenosynovitis and viral arthritis, spondylolisthesis)

    • Hatching eggs and hatchery (production, storage, transportation, incubation)

    • Heat stress

    • Mineral and vitamin deficiency

  • 6 hours

    • Necropsy techniques and sample collection